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![]() Notepad on Windows 11 | |
Original author(s) | Richard Brodie |
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Developer(s) | Microsoft |
Initial release | 1983 (as Multi-Tool Notepad) |
Stable release | December 2024 Update (11.2412.16.0)
/ February 24, 2025[1] |
Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
Platform | IA-32, x86-64, and ARM (historically Itanium, DEC Alpha, MIPS, and PowerPC) |
Predecessor | MS-DOS Editor |
Type | Text editor |
License | Freeware |
Website | apps |
Windows Notepad is a simple text editor for Windows; it creates and edits plain text documents. It was first released in 1983 to commercialize the computer mouse in MS-DOS.