Windows Notepad
| Windows Notepad | |||||
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Notepad on Windows 11 | |||||
| Original author(s) | Richard Brodie | ||||
| Developer(s) | Microsoft | ||||
| Initial release | 1983 (as Multi-Tool Notepad) | ||||
| Stable release(s) [±] | |||||
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| Operating system | Windows 10, 11 | ||||
| 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.