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This 43-year-old Windows app is still my favorite markdown editor

Windows keeps getting newer features and apps, but Notepad is still the best program it offers thanks to how little bloatware ...
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Windows 11 Notepad will soon let you generate text using on-device AI models — no subscription required

Microsoft has announced a big update for the Notepad app on Windows 11 that introduces support for generating, rewriting, and summarizing text using on-device AI models instead of the cloud. Up until ...
TweakTown

Extra features for Windows 11 Notepad go beyond worries about bloat, as new security flaw shows

TL;DR: Windows 11's Notepad app has a security flaw rated as a 'high' severity vulnerability, one that allows for remote code execution. The good news is that it's already been patched by Microsoft, ...
Ars Technica

Windows Notepad’s midlife renaissance continues with spellcheck and autocorrect

Whatever else you can say about Windows 11—and whatever you think about its pushy tendencies and the Copilot feature that has been rolled out to pretty much everyone despite being labeled a ...
Ars Technica

Notepad’s spellcheck and autocorrect are rolling out to everybody after 41 years

In March, Microsoft started testing an update to the venerable Notepad app that added spellcheck and autocorrect to the app’s limited but slowly growing set of capabilities. The update that adds these ...