Ever since Microsoft killed WordPad last year, the company has been shoving all kinds of new features into its once-minimal Notepad app, hoping to turn it into some kind of AI-laden WordPad successor. The latest Notepad updates have focused on AI, but for the time being Microsoft seems to be focusing on other parts as well.
In an exclusive report, it appears that Microsoft will be adding image support to Notepad, according to Windows Latest. (A feature that had always been part of WordPad, I’d be remiss not to mention.)
Once it’s here, you’ll see an image button in Notepad’s toolbar, and it’ll be included as part of Notepad’s rich formatting feature set. If you don’t want image support, you’ll be able to disable it in Notepad’s settings.
As of now, it’s still in early testing and only for Windows Insiders. It’s unclear when exactly Notepad image support will be made available to all users, but we think it might come sometime in the spring.
Further reading: Notepad is now so complex, it has security flaws