What if the humble Notepad, a tool synonymous with simplicity, suddenly became your most powerful writing assistant? With the integration of Copilot, Microsoft has transformed this classic text ...

On Windows 11 (and 10), users in the United States can now use Copilot Vision, an AI assistant that helps with almost anything you're doing on your computer. Want to know if it really works? Well, I ...

Instead, the feature lets you rewrite and tweak what you've already written—so before you click on the Copilot button, you need to put some text into Notepad and then select it.

Notepad just received an update that adds new features to the classic app. Notepad has been around since 1983, holding strong as a basic text editor with a clean interface and minimal features.

The long-neglected Notepad now has the ability to write custom content based on any prompt you feed it, so long as you have Microsoft 365 or a Copilot Pro subscription.

Either way, by beefing up Notepad—heck, even with Copilot!—and adding the Edit option as well, Windows is offering a number of lightweight CLI and text-editing interfaces without bloating the ...

To use the new Write feature in Notepad, you have to be either a Microsoft 365 or Copilot Pro subscriber and then use some of your allotted AI credits. Paint and Snipping Tool also are leveling up ...

In Notepad, click the cog icon (top right) to access the program settings, then turn off the Copilot toggle switch to hide the AI features from view. AI had found its way into Notepad, but you can ...