Microsoft’s humble NotePad might be getting tabs in Windows 11

Shortly after Home windows 11 arrived, Microsoft made some key improvements within the Notepad app that hasn’t seen a lot change because the Home windows 95 days. Now, it might be introducing a good larger function, judging by a leak from a senior Microsoft product supervisor noticed by The Verge. “Notepad in Home windows 11 now has tabs!” the particular person stated on Twitter, earlier than the tweet was deleted a number of minutes later. 

The screenshot included within the tweet reveals two tabs, together with a be aware “confidential, do not talk about options or take screenshots.” That warning clearly didn’t do the job, however the screenshot signifies that tabs are in testing and should arrive to Home windows Insiders someday down the street.

Given how a lot all of us depend upon tabs in internet browsers, it is exhausting to imagine they are not extra ubiquitous on different apps. Microsoft added that function to File Explorer on Home windows 11 earlier this year, serving to scale back the sprawl throughout screens while you’re looking out or copying recordsdata. The corporate did check tabs for Home windows 10 apps some years ago, however basically deserted that venture.

Notepad is an outdated app, to say the least, having arrived in 1983 to assist Microsoft promote folks on utilizing a mouse in MS-DOS. Contemplating it is largely the identical plain textual content editor it was twenty years in the past, it is wonderful it is nonetheless used as a lot as it’s. For those who’re utilizing Notepad a lot that you just want tabs, my hat’s off to you — however the function is only a rumor till we see it launched into the wild.