Open-source apps can make your Windows 11 PC better, and they can even replace Microsoft's bundled tools. Here are a few examples.

Notepad now lets you use markdown text formatting on Windows 11, which means you can write in Notepad just like you could in WordPad. The new formatting feature is turned on by default, and you ...

Ever since Microsoft killed WordPad in 2024, the much-simpler Notepad app has been receiving several new features—almost as ...

A new version of Notepad for Windows 11 was released with support for Markdown, the popular markup language for all kinds of text. The update adds support for subheadings, italics and bold text ...