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Microsoft’s decision to strip the Copilot badge from Notepad is more than a cosmetic tweak. It is a small but telling admission that the company’s all-in branding strategy has started to clash with how people actually use Windows. The AI features remain, but the loud Copilot label is being...

Microsoft is not actually removing Copilot from Windows 11 so much as it is changing where the brand appears, and that distinction matters. The company has begun trimming Copilot entry points in apps such as Notepad and Snipping Tool, but the underlying AI features remain in place under new...

Microsoft is quietly doing something that would have seemed unlikely a year ago: it is removing Copilot branding from parts of Windows 11 rather than adding more of it. In Notepad, the old Copilot menu is being replaced with “writing tools,” the button is changing from a Copilot-marked control...

Microsoft’s Notepad is no longer just the tiny, no-nonsense text box Windows users grew up with. In Windows 11, it has quietly become a surprisingly capable editing surface with tabs, session restore, recent-file history, Markdown-style formatting, spell checking, autocorrect, and AI-assisted...