Microsoft has begun testing an updated version of its classic Notepad app — it has received a number of modern innovations, including a dark theme, a more user-friendly interface for search and replace functions, and enhanced options for undoing recent actions.
Updated Notepad features are now available to Windows 11 Early Access Program members. In addition to visual changes, including a dark theme, there have been functional changes. The search and replace fields now have a different look and search has been moved to the top of the text field. Now you can undo not one, but several recent actions. In addition, the "Format" menu has disappeared, from which the "Font" item has moved to the "Edit" menu.
All in all, Microsoft is not planning global innovations for Notepad, so as not to turn it into something fundamentally new - the company just wants to make it a little more modern. This makes sense because the rest of Windows comes standard with WordPad, which supports text formatting and works with DOCX files.
The updated notebook is available to members of the Windows 11 early evaluation program in the developer channel. Users of the test version of the OS just need to check for updates in the Microsoft Store. In the stable version of the platform, the new Notepad will probably appear a little later.
Microsoft is adding the ability to customize the Start menu and improve the taskbar in Windows 11
Microsoft has released Windows 11 Build 22509 to Insiders in the Early Access Developer Channel. There are not many innovations in this build, but there are enough changes and improvements, and there are fixes aimed at increasing the stability of the operating system.
Windows 11 users who work with multiple monitors have noticed that the date and time are not displayed on the taskbars of the additional monitors. In the new build of Windows 11, this has been fixed and you can see the date and time on the taskbar of each of the additional monitors. Changes were also made to the operation of system messages; which are shown to the user through the "Notification Center". Some Control Panel options now exist in the Options section.
Also worth noting is the appearance of the ability to customize the "Start" menu. Now all you have to do is right-click the Start menu to access the item's display options. Users have access to the More Icons or More Recommendations layout options to add an extra row of app icons or recommendations to the Start menu.
In terms of innovations, the most notable are the improvements to browsing web pages with Narrator. Users will be able to quickly enter text into the editable fields and they will also have more data when navigating through the pages using this tool. Along with this, the developers have made many less noticeable improvements and fixes to make the software platform more stable and user-friendly.
