Microsoft announced a handful of new upgrades to the humble Notepad app shortly following it launched Windows 11 last year. The list of features included not only dark mode, but also a redesigned find and replace experience, and support for the multi-level undo feature. Now, almost a year later, an accidental bug by a Microsoft employee has revealed that the company is soon planning to bring tabs to the Notepad app. Also Read – How to take a screenshot on Windows 11 PC
According to a report by Windows Central, a Microsoft employee accidentally shared a screenshot via his Twitter account, which shows that the company is planning to bring tabs to its Notepad app. The since-deleted screenshot shows two open tabs in the app with the message, “Don’t discuss features or discuss screenshots.” Also Read – Microsoft is bringing real-time voice translation to Skype: check out the details
The warning message states that the tabs feature is still in the testing phase and that the company is expected to preview it for Windows Insiders sometime in 2023. Also Read – Microsoft ends support for Edge on Windows 7, 8.1
If this is true, Microsoft Notepad will be the second built-in app following Files to get tabs functionality.
It should be noted that Microsoft first experimented with the idea of bringing tab functionality into Notepad and File Explorer applications nearly five years ago. According to reports dating back to November 2017, the company was developing the functionality codenamed “Groups” for Windows 10 and that it would allow users to open multiple files from the Notepad app at once and switch between them without closing any one of them. But the feature didn’t make it to Windows 10. However, the availability of the tabs feature within the company’s built-in tabs app gives some hope to Windows PC users that the feature will make it to the operating system, even if they have to wait a bit longer.
Separately, Microsoft has started testing the Android 13 update for Windows 11. The Windows subsystem for Android got its Android 13 update in the beta channel earlier this month. When the feature is released in the stable version, the feature will provide updates such as up to 50 percent faster boot time on computers without spinning disks, improvements to mouse click input, better clipboard stability, improvements to application resizing and reliability improvements for media files opened in Windows among others.
