Microsoft Notepad and Paint are getting new AI features, for some reason

Notepad and Paint for Windows 11 are getting yet more updates, but Microsoft should really be focusing on other in-box ...
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

Major Windows 11 update adds Notepad tabs, iPhone pairing, and a dash of AI

Update, 11:42 am ET: We've added information about iMessage support in the Your Phone app. The headliner, at least for people who have signed up for the AI-powered preview of "the new Bing," is ...
TweakTown

Microsoft adds a generative AI feature to Notepad, its simple text editor

TL;DR: Microsoft's Notepad, a simple text editor, is introducing a new AI 'Rewrite' feature in version 11.2410.15.0 for Windows Insiders on Windows 11. This feature allows users to rephrase sentences, ...
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Notepad's best feature is its simplicity — and I'm worried Microsoft is slowly taking it away

As time goes on, Microsoft keeps adding more and more features to Windows, and it can be a good thing just as much as it can be a bad thing. Some features you can't imagine living without, and others ...
Bleeping Computer

Windows 11 Notepad gets a built-in character counter, finally

Microsoft keeps improving and adding more features to the Windows 11 Notepad application, the latest being a built-in character counter. Until now, users who needed a quick way to count characters in ...
The Verge

Not even Notepad is safe from Microsoft’s big AI push in Windows

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