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  1. Microsoft OneNote Update 2023: AI Features and Enhanced Multi-Display Support

    Microsoft’s ongoing evolution of OneNote is reaching another inflection point, marrying advanced AI capabilities with real-world usability upgrades in its latest wave of updates. While Copilot Notebooks – a new suite of AI-powered features – is capturing headlines, it’s the arrival of Dynamic...
  2. Microsoft Notepad Gets Built-in Text Formatting with Markdown Support in New Update

    Microsoft has unveiled a significant update to Notepad, introducing built-in text formatting capabilities—a feature long requested by users. Starting June 2, 2025, Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels can test Notepad version 11.2504.50.0, which now includes a formatting toolbar for...
  3. Microsoft Notepad Revamped for Windows 11: Markdown, AI, and Modern Text Editing

    Notepad, Microsoft’s stationery stalwart on Windows, has always occupied a curious position in the digital world: indispensable for coders and casual users alike, yet untouched by the grand ambitions of feature-packed office suites. It weathered decades of technological change, surviving with...
  4. Windows 11 Notepad Update: Lightweight Text Editor Gets Basic Formatting & Lists

    With the latest update to Windows 11, Microsoft Notepad finds itself at a long-awaited crossroads. For decades, Notepad has been the quintessential barebones text editor, serving as a digital scratchpad for everyone from novice Windows users jotting down phone numbers to seasoned system...
  5. Microsoft Notepad Gets Light Text Formatting & Markdown Support in Windows Insider

    Notepad, one of the most iconic and enduring applications in the Windows ecosystem, has entered a new chapter with the introduction of lightweight text formatting for users enrolled in the Windows Insider Canary and Dev Channels. This seemingly simple update, bundled in version 11.2504.50.0...
  6. Windows Notepad 2023: The Evolution of Microsoft's Classic Text Editor

    The humble Notepad app, a staple of the Windows experience since the earliest days of Microsoft’s operating system, has undergone a remarkable transformation. While for decades it was considered the epitome of simplicity—a fast-launching, no-frills utility for jotting notes, inspecting log...
  7. Microsoft Turns Notepad into a Lightweight Rich Text Editor in Windows 11

    The Windows Notepad application has long been an icon of simplicity—a minimalist text editor adored by programmers, students, and anyone needing a quick digital jotter. For decades, Notepad stood still against the tides of changing technology, its spartan design a bastion of functionality...
  8. Microsoft OneNote’s New UI Update Enhances Productivity with Space-Saving Design

    Microsoft’s relentless drive to improve user productivity and experience is once again on display with the latest user interface update for OneNote, one of its flagship note-taking applications. This update, rolling out with version 2503 (build 16.0.18730.20074 and newer) for Office users...
  9. Microsoft OneNote Update Enhances Workspace with Floating Search Bar and Expanded Canvas

    If you’ve ever found yourself wrestling with limited screen real estate while using Microsoft OneNote, recent upgrades may offer a welcome reprieve. The latest UI overhaul, now rolling out to users of the OneNote desktop app for Office, aims to maximize usable canvas space—especially crucial for...