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Windows 11's Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad Apps Are About to Get New Features

Paint: .paint "Save as project" and an opacity slider for Pencil/Brush—layered edits and smoother blending. Snipping Tool: Quick markup (Ctrl+E) adds inline toolbar for pen, highlighter, shapes, ...
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Microsoft drops Copilot branding in Notepad for Windows 11 for everyone, but it’s really just a rename

I noticed that Notepad on my production PC was auto-updated, and it no longer has any reference to Copilot, but AI ...

Microsoft begins pulling Copilot out of Windows 11 apps in a major cleanup push

Copilot remains on duty, just without the neon sign.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox ...
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Microsoft starts to scale back Copilot integration in Windows 11, starting with the Notepad app

Microsoft seems to be hard at work trying to (finally) improve Windows 11 for the end user. Granted, the move might be a bit late, and Microsoft seems to have already lost the trust of a large section ...
TWCN Tech News

How to use Summarize in Windows 11 Notepad to Enhance Writing with AI

Here’s how you may use the Summarize feature in the Windows 11 Notepad app to enhance writing with AI: Open the Notepad app. Paste or type the text you want to summarize. Select the text. Click ...
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Think Notepad is Bloatpad now? Microsoft's new lightweight text editor is coming to Windows 11

TL;DR: Microsoft is ushering in a lightweight text editor for Windows 11 called Edit, which it says pays homage to the classic MS-DOS Editor experience, but with a suitably modern interface. It's ...
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Microsoft Is Scrubbing the Copilot Name From Some Windows 11 Apps

Microsoft Is Scrubbing the Copilot Name From Some Windows 11 Apps ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft now testing Notepad text formatting in Windows 11

Microsoft announced today that the Windows 11 Notepad application is getting a text formatting feature supporting Markdown-style input. The feature is being introduced one year after Microsoft removed ...
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Microsoft Replaces Copilot in Windows 11 Notepad With Writing Tools Update

Microsoft has made a simple but important change in Windows 11. The company has removed the Copilot name from the Notepad app and replaced it with a new section ...
Bleeping Computer

Windows 11 Notepad gets AI-powered text writing capabilities

Microsoft is testing a new AI-powered text generation feature in Notepad that can let Windows Insiders create content based on custom prompts. Dubbed "Write," the new Notepad feature is rolling out to ...
TWCN Tech News

How to replace Notepad with Microsoft Edit on Windows 11

In this post, we will show you how to replace Notepad with Microsoft Edit on Windows 11. Plain text editing should be simple and quick. For years, Notepad filled that role on Windows by doing just one ...
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Microsoft is adding more features to Notepad, but this time, it is not AI slop. The latest additions are for those wishing the app had tables. Have you ever opened Notepad in Windows 11 and thought, ...