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Windows 11’s Notepad “Create a table” feature is now available, along with AI streaming results

Windows 11's Notepad now lets you create tables, similar to MS Word. But it is quite simple, and gets the job done.
Windows Report

Microsoft Updates Notepad With Markdown & AI Upgrades, Paint App Gets AI Coloring Book

Windows Insiders get AI-powered Notepad and Paint updates, featuring Markdown upgrades, coloring book generator, and streaming AI results.
BGR

You Have To Pay For Windows Notepad If You Want To Use AI

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 ...
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 ...

Microsoft rolls out tables in Notepad for all Windows 11 users, though I'd feel happier about this if I knew this was the final addition to my favorite little app

If you're a Notepad purist, you can remove the option to use tables by clicking on the cog icon in the top-right corner and ...
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 ...
Kotaku

40 Years Later, Microsoft Finally Adds Spell Check To Notepad

Microsoft’s free and simple text editor, Notepad, is finally getting a feature that many users have requested for years: Spell check. Finally, when you copy and paste random URLs or passwords into ...