<ul><li>Notepad.exe, the built-in Windows text editor, has undergone significant updates over the past 3.5 years.</li><li>Recent updates have focused on integrating generative AI capabilities into Notepad, allowing users to rewrite, summarize, and now write AI-generated text.</li><li>Users need to be signed into a Microsoft Account to use these AI features in Notepad, and it requires the consumption of Microsoft's AI credits.</li><li>Microsoft is gradually shifting towards integrating AI functionalities into various aspects of its products, including Notepad.</li></ul>

In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you”

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