Notepad now lets you use markdown text formatting on Windows 11, which means you can write in Notepad just like you could in WordPad.

Microsoft has added bold, italics, lists, hyperlinks, and even Markdown to the Windows Notepad app, making it look more and more like the now-defunct WordPad.

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 ...

Following the deprecation of WordPad, Microsoft has been adding a lot of features to Notepad, which has led to criticism from users who prefer Notepad for its no-frills simplicity. If you’re ...

Hate Notepad in Windows 11 because Microsoft keeps adding features to the app, bloating it up? You might like the new 'Edit' app that's in the works now.

Introduced alongside Windows 95, WordPad offered a built-in rich text editor for users unwilling to pay for a full Microsoft Office license. It filled a middle ground between Word and Notepad.

Microsoft announced today that the Windows 11 Notepad application is getting a text formatting feature supporting Markdown-style input.

After nearly three decades of processing words in Windows, WordPad is finally being shoved out of the door with the freshly released 24H2 update.

As ExtremeTech notes, Notepad is still getting updates, like spell-check and auto-correct, perhaps as a consolation prize, "but it has nowhere near WordPad's overall feature set." If you want Word ...

Another veteran Windows application, Notepad, is still receiving updates, such as spellcheck and tabs in Windows 11 24H2. This could compensate for some of the missing features now that WordPad ...

The tech giant will not include WordPad in Windows 11 version 24H2, which began rolling out on Oct. 2, 2024. This marks the end of WordPad's 28-year tenure as a built-in Windows application.

Microsoft WordPad is officially deprecated, which means it will disappear as soon as you update to 24H2. There is a workaround, though.