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TinyRetroPad is 130 times smaller than Windows Notepad, and it does everything that actually matters

Bickering over a simple tool like Notepad is last on my list when I want to complain about lackluster feature implementations and apps in Windows. The modern WinUI3 apps look nice and blend with the ...
PC World

I told Windows Notepad’s new AI to turn Nvidia’s fail into poetry

Windows 11 has quietly added a new feature to your PC: AI-powered editing to the Windows 11 Notepad app, called Rewrite. In November, Microsoft began testing the addition of AI rewrite capabilities in ...
TweakTown

Think Notepad is Bloatpad now? Microsoft's new lightweight text editor is coming to Windows 11

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. If you're one of those people who's lamenting the loss of a super-streamlined text editor in Windows 11 - now Microsoft has binned WordPad, and turned ...
BetaNews

Microsoft is adding image support to Notepad in Windows 11

Notepad has changed so dramatically over the decades of its existence, that it can hardly be considered the same app anymore. With Microsoft having killed off WordPad (which was, initially, more ...
TechRepublic

Microsoft: Critical Security Issue Found in Windows Notepad

Microsoft patches CVE-2026-20841, a high-severity Windows Notepad flaw that could allow code execution via malicious Markdown files. Notepad has long been Windows’ quiet utility knife. It opens ...