The simplicity that made the Windows Notepad so special is starting to be ruined, and Microsoft may be going too far with new features.

Microsoft is now testing a new feature in Notepad that can generate text for you using AI. It’s part of a Windows 11 update being released to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels with ...

— Mayank Parmar (@mayank_jee) July 6, 2025 Notepad's markdown is a great example of how Microsoft can add new features without annoying existing customers who love the app for its simplicity.

Notepad saves files as UTF-8 without BOM by default In this build, Microsoft added the ability to save files as UTF-8 without a BOM (Byte Order Mark), which is labeled as the "UTF-8" option when ...

Microsoft wrote a blog post describing the changes which have started to roll out to Windows 11 testers in the Canary and Dev channels via an update to the Notepad app (version 11.2504.50.0).

For years, Notepad has existed as a bare-bones text editor. No longer. Microsoft keeps adding to it, including a new update that includes capabilities that you might have expected in another ...

NotePad2 hits the sweet spot for me. If you try it and like it, you can have NotePad2 replace NotePad with a tweak to the Windows registry. You can even have NotePad2 support Windows 7's jump list of ...