After being a part of the Windows operating system for 41 years, Notepad is finally getting a new spellcheck feature that users have been demanding for nearly as long as the app has existed. This ...

In fact, our colleagues at PCMag wrote up a handful of Notepad programming tips back in 2017 that still stand, and some of them might be a tad easier with tabs.

Not everyone who downloads the latest Windows Insider build (11.2402.18.0) will get the updated version of Notepad, as there appears to be some A-B testing going on.

Notepad++ (free) starts with the basic text editing provided by the Windows Notepad program, and adds a slew of features to help programmers and scripters. Notepad++ may look like plain old ...