"The "What's New" first-run experience will appear during startup to guide users through the app's latest features. According to Microsoft, "this dialog provides a quick overview of what's possible in Notepad and serves as a helpful starting point for both new and returning users." It can be closed and reopened by clicking a megaphone icon in the top-right of the toolbar."
"This time around, the company has shoehorned in more markdown features, including strikethrough formatting and nested lists. Support for AI streaming features is also expanded in the latest Notepad release. Microsoft wrote: "Whether generated locally or in the cloud, results for Write, Rewrite, and Summarize will start to appear quicker without the need to wait for the full response, providing a preview sooner that you can interact with." Assuming, of course, you've signed in with a Microsoft account."
"The company has also continued to add tweaks to its former simple bitmap editor, Paint. One, "Coloring book," is an AI feature that turns the user's text into a coloring book page (we can't imagine it being used to produce a picture of "a user faced with relentless AI slop" for a crayon-wielding toddler to improve). The other is a tolerance slider for the fill tool. The Coloring book option applies only to Copilot+ PCs and requires a user to sign in with a Microsof"
A "What's New" first-run screen now appears at Notepad startup to present recent features and can be reopened via a megaphone icon in the toolbar. Version 11.2512.10.0 adds more Markdown capabilities such as strikethrough and nested lists, following prior Markdown and table updates. AI streaming for Write, Rewrite, and Summarize returns partial results faster whether generated locally or in the cloud, offering interactive previews and requiring a Microsoft account. Microsoft did not share user feedback. Paint gained an AI "Coloring book" feature and a fill-tool tolerance slider, with Coloring book limited to Copilot+ PCs.
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