Thankfully, you can still re-enable the old version of Notepad by opening the Settings App (press Windows+i) and navigating to Apps > Advanced App Settings > App Execution Aliases ...

Microsoft has announced that the Windows 11 Notepad and Media Player applications are getting some new updates for Windows Insiders.

Microsoft keeps improving and adding more features to the Windows 11 Notepad application, the latest being a built-in character counter.

The latest round of Windows 11 updates has finally delivered Notepad in its finest form, as arguably now the best, most reliable offline word processor around. It's always been a handy li'l app ...