A new Notepad update for Windows Insiders begins Microsoft's push to reduce Copilot on Windows 11, replacing it with ...

After months of Copilot showing up everywhere in Windows 11 like an overenthusiastic guest who refuses to leave, Microsoft is finally dialing things back. The company has started scaling back Copilot ...

Microsoft has rolled out a Notepad update for Windows Insiders that removes the Copilot branding and icon from within the app ...

Microsoft removes the Copilot button in Notepad and drops all AI from its Snipping Tool.

Microsoft is discreetly removing the Copilot button from several Windows 11 apps like Notepad and Snipping Tool. This move ...

Microsoft removes Copilot branding from Windows 11 apps, renaming features in Notepad while keeping AI tools unchanged in the ...

In the Windows Insider preview version of Notepad, the AI functions are now called Writing Tools. Previously, the function ...

The removal of Copilot from Notepad seems to be the first step in a larger plan from Microsoft to improve the Windows 11 experience.

There's a difference between the "Notepad app" and notepad.exe. The Notepad app has the AI and all the new stuff in it. But the old C : \windows\system32\notepad.exe still exists, and is unencumbered ...