Microsoft is now testing an AI-powered text summarization feature in Notepad and a Snipping Tool "Draw & Hold" feature that helps draw perfect shapes.

A Microsoft preview update is bringing some big AI features to some older Windows apps, including Notepad.

Microsoft has started testing AI-powered Notepad text rewriting and Paint image generation tools four decades after the two programs were released in the 1980s.

Even Microsoft Notepad is getting infused with AI It took forever and a day just to get spell check for Notepad, but AI? Hey, no problem.