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It's becoming Word-lite, like Wordpad used to be. Paint is becoming Photoshop-lite, and now has conflicting functionality with the Photos app.
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What happened to WordPad? Is it still a thing?

I hope they give notepad a keyboard shortcut to transition to ascii only like textedit has on the Mac


Gone since Windows 11 24H2, according to Wikipedia.

Word and wordpad are terrible for editing code snippets tho, markdown solves this problem.

Word and wordpad were rich text editors. Markdown is plain text



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