Twitch streamer "Lacari" opened Notepad while live, not realizing that the new version saves your previous session. Oh boy.

You can have too much of a good thing, you know.

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

If you thought Windows' humble, no-frills text editor would remain untouched by Microsoft's never-ending quest to monetize things, think again. The company dropped AI features for Notepad a few months ...

Microsoft is now testing an AI-powered text summarization feature in Notepad and a Snipping Tool "Draw & Hold" feature that helps draw perfect shapes. Dubbed "Summarize," the new and highly-requested ...

The Snipping Tool is also getting a handy way to draw straight lines. The Snipping Tool is also getting a handy way to draw straight lines. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer ...

Microsoft has released Notepad 11.2512.10.0 with expanded Markdown support and AI streaming, plus Paint 11.2512.191.0 with AI ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: I have a question about running Notepad under Windows 11: What registry setting can I tweak to get Notepad to ...

If you have a paid subscription of Microsoft Office on your system, then you can use the same for counting words in Notepad. The reason is that Microsoft Word has an in-built word counter. All you ...

Since the early days of Microsoft, Notepad has been known to be part of what Windows offers users, but it is only now that it has been upgraded to include new features to enjoy. Windows 11 users may ...

Having not really been updated since 1983, Notepad is getting rich features without losing its essence. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...