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Markdown support and the like are useful but their need to cram AI and account sign-in into it definitely seemed over the top. When they got rid of Wordpad I kind of anticipated them trying to pivot Notepad more in that direction.

For what it matters, Windows Server 2025 still has the edit field in a wrapper.

They all still do, just like the old Explorer context menu. It's what you get when you remove the new abomination.

You mean... I can just uninstall the Appx package and notepad.exe will revert to the old edit box? That would be great

Yes, I was pleased to see our new Windows Server boxes still have regular Notepad and Explorer.

FWIW, when I used windows (up to 7), I always used Notetab.

Is that old still provided?

Yes, it’s still under C:\Windows\notepad.exe, probably for backwards compatibility.