Microsoft’s humble NotePad is likely to be getting tabs in Home 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 fair 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 mentioned 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 focus on options or take screenshots.” That warning clearly did not do the job, however the screenshot signifies that tabs are in testing and will arrive to Home windows Insiders someday down the highway.

Given how a lot all of us rely on tabs in net browsers, it is onerous to imagine they don’t seem to be extra ubiquitous on different apps. Microsoft added that function to File Explorer on Home windows 11 earlier this year, serving to cut back the sprawl throughout screens while you’re looking out or copying information. The corporate did check tabs for Home windows 10 apps some years ago, however basically deserted that mission.

Notepad is an outdated app, to say the least, having arrived in 1983 to assist Microsoft promote folks on utilizing a mouse in MS-DOS.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 superb it is nonetheless used as a lot as it’s. In case you’re utilizing Notepad a lot that you simply want tabs, my hat’s off to you — however the function is only a rumor till we see it launched into the wild.