Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window.
The latest round of Windows 11 updates has finally delivered Notepad in its finest form, as arguably now the best, most reliable offline word processor around. It's always been a handy li'l app, sitting in your Windows installation waiting patiently for that time when you might need to quickly edit a text or system file. But, as a straight word processor, it's been a little lacking, with its younger sibling WordPad getting more tippytappy keyboard attention.
The new spell check feature has been in the dev and canary channels of various Windows Insider builds since March this year, but is now starting to roll out to the public en masse as Windows Notepad version 11.2405.13.0. It's maybe a small thing—just having those wibbly red lines popping up under errant typos or misspelled words—but it shows the continued development of the app as well as the improved modern usability of it as a day-to-day virtual notepad.
Importantly, none of the feature updates brought into Notepad have changed what it's meant to be at its heart. It's meant to be a simple, lightweight app, one that's quick to load and you can open up as quickly as you would a physical notepad. And it still is. So yes, if I wanted another new feature added to Notepad it would be exactly that: a consistent seamless experience wherever I'm logged in with my Microsoft account. And as I'm using it as a genuine virtual notepad now, it'd be handy to be able to paste in screenshots, too.
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