"Your essential text editor, elevated," says Microsoft when you open one of the world's once simplest text editors, Notepad, ...

Microsoft is rolling out new artificial intelligence features with the latest updates to the Notepad and Paint apps for Windows 11 Insiders.

Shortly after Windows 11 arrived, Microsoft made some key improvements in the Notepad app that hasn't seen much change since the Windows 95 days. Now, it may be introducing an even bigger feature, ...

Image showing Notepad with highlighted text and a dialogue with the results of using the summarize feature to summarize the text. Microsoft Notepad, one of the iconic features of Windows, might seem ...

Bad spellers rejoice, Microsoft has finally added a spellcheck function to Notepad, and it only took 41 years. In a year that has seen ChatGPT and other super intelligent AI systems thrust into the ...

Microsoft's January 2026 security update has broken Windows 11 apps like Notepad and Snipping Tool, introducing dual bugs ...

If you regularly use Windows Notepad, there is a major update which you will have to know about. As part of the latest Windows 11 developer build, Microsoft has added a slew of long-requested features ...

Windows 11 users now have a new Word-like spellcheck feature inside Notepad. Windows 11 users now have a new Word-like spellcheck feature inside Notepad. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who ...

Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and development, start-ups and the tech industry overseas. LAS VEGAS--Microsoft is set to unveil on Sunday new ...

Microsoft has been making lots of updates to its various note-taking and planning products as of late. Microsoft has added a number of new features to Sticky Notes, including the ability to sync ...

A beta release in the Canary channel of Windows Insider means you won’t have to remember to save notes. Also, Snipping tool updates make screen recording easier. I've been testing PC and mobile ...

In August, Microsoft decided to make Notepad for the Windows 10 20H1 branch a separate application that could be updated from the Microsoft Store. But with 20H1 or Windows 10 version 2004 nearly done, ...