Plummer has spent recent months telling Microsoft what they do not want to hear about Windows 11. He argued the OS needs its own Windows XP SP2 moment, a stretch where Microsoft drops new features and ...

Dave Plummer’s TinyRetroPad revives classic Notepad simplicity, stripping away AI, telemetry, and unnecessary modern clutter Built in under 3 kilobytes, the new tool highlights growing frustration ...

Microsoft's habit of adding unnecessary features to Notepad is a symptom of broader bloating in the Windows codebase. But it is possible to go back to basics with a version of the editor that fits in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jodie Cook covers AI and founder-led growth for business owners. Andrej Karpathy, who coined "vibe coding," now deems it obsolete, ...

Thousands of Microsoft developers will use GitHub Copilot CLI instead Thousands of Microsoft developers will use GitHub Copilot CLI instead is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has ...

The popular Notepad++ coding editor is now available as a native macOS app, following an unofficial open-source community port of the original Windows codebase. The Notepad replacement runs as a ...

Simon Whiteley, the production designer behind the code, has said he used his wife's Japanese cookbooks to help create the design. What's False: The Japanese characters were mixed with other symbols ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jodie Cook covers AI and founder-led growth for business owners. Vibe coding, where AI generates code from plain language, is ...

In this post, we will show you how to use Markdown in Notepad on a Windows 11 PC. Microsoft has introduced lightweight formatting in Notepad, and it supports Markdown (*.md) files to work directly ...

Editor's take: Microsoft is having a tough time leaving Windows Notepad well enough alone. The classic text editor is effectively gone, replaced by a "new" version that keeps accumulating a growing ...