Microsoft's Notepad app has been around for over four decades and is admired by developers, enthusiasts, and general users alike. A few years ago, the unthinkable happened when the company added ...

Microsoft is adding free AI-powered text writing capabilities to Notepad for customers with Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11.

Earlier this year, Microsoft killed WordPad—the free and surprisingly capable built-in word processor that debuted in Windows 95. For this, they must be punished. Yet while Microsoft taketh away, they ...