It has finally happened. Microsoft’s text editor Notepad just got a spellcheck feature, more than 40 years after the software launched in 1983.

TED Notepad has features to bracket text with beginning and ending markers (useful for marking up text for HTML or XML), a feature which lets you select a block of text and have it cut from the ...

Microsoft is distributing new preview versions of the rudimentary text editor Notepad in the Insider channels. It now learns advanced text formatting and also allows Markdown-style input.