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...
Microsoft is quietly testing inline image support and expanded generative-AI tools in Windows 11’s Notepad, a move that shifts the decades‑old utility away from its long-held identity as a bare‑bones text scratchpad and toward a lightweight, Markdown‑aware authoring surface — and it raises...