Over 40 years later, Windows’ Notepad finally has spell check

Earlier this year, Microsoft killed WordPad—the free and surprisingly capable built-in word processor that debuted in Windows 95. For this, they must be punished. Yet while Microsoft taketh away, they also giveth.

After several months of testing, the Notepad text editor is finally getting spell check and auto-correct features. Maybe that’ll even things out.

We reported on this back in March when this upgrade to Notepad began rolling out to Windows 11 Insider builds. Now it...