{"id":294424,"date":"2025-12-02T06:57:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T06:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/294424\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T06:57:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T06:57:23","slug":"microsoft-is-turning-windows-11s-notepad-into-a-ai-toy-with-streaming-where-you-watch-ai-text-type-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/294424\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is turning Windows 11’s Notepad into a AI toy with \u201cstreaming\u201d where you watch AI text type itself"},"content":{"rendered":"

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AI in Notepad is not exactly new, as it\u2019s been around for several months at this point<\/a>, but Microsoft is now putting effort into improving the integration. A new update for Notepad\u2019s Copilot integration will add support for \u201cstreaming,\u201d which means you can watch AI text type itself instead of directly seeing the final input.<\/p>\n

\n When an app or product uses streaming, it makes the text appear gradually, letter by letter. Streaming makes the experience look more natural, and is particularly helpful when you’re using voice mode.\n <\/p>\n

When you use a large language model like ChatGPT, you might have noticed that texts start appearing almost immediately. Right now, you don\u2019t see the same experience when you use Copilot in Notepad. Microsoft wants that to change, and help Notepad behave a bit more like ChatGPT (yes, really).<\/p>\n

\"Notepad<\/p>\n

AI text streaming support is rolling out for Notepad, but it\u2019s limited to Copilot+ PCs at the moment. This doesn\u2019t mean you are going to escape the AI upgrade, as Microsoft has quietly confirmed that AI text streaming will eventually come to all regular PCs, including your AMD and Intel PC, even if they don\u2019t support Windows 11 officially, but run on it.<\/p>\n

\u201cStreaming support for Rewrite is limited to results generated locally on Copilot+ PCs at this time,\u201d Microsoft noted<\/a> in a post.<\/p>\n

AI in Notepad defeats the whole purpose of a \u2018simple text editor.\u2019<\/p>\n

While I understand \u2018Copilot\u2019 in Notepad is an optional feature (turned on by default, tho), do we really need AI in what was supposed to be a simple text editor?<\/p>\n

\"Customize<\/p>\n

If I wanted to generate AI content, I could use the Copilot app directly. If not the Copilot consumer client, I\u2019d use the Microsoft 365 Copilot, which is specifically tailored for generating. I can also use Claude and ChatGPT desktop Windows apps or Copilot inside Edge to generate AI.<\/p>\n

There are valid use cases for AI, but you don\u2019t need AI inside Notepad to generate content from scratch, rewrite texts, summarise, etc, among others.<\/p>\n

\"Notepad<\/p>\n

AI is enabled in Notepad by default, and you can select any text and use features like Write, Rewrite, Customised re-write, and Summarise. You\u2019re also getting a customised re-write feature that lets you make the text shorter or longer, change the tone (Formal, Casual, Inspirational, Humour, or Persuasive).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

You can even change the format, all from the same menu. For example, there\u2019s an option that lets you regenerate the text for \u2018marketing\u2019 work. Why would you generate marketing material for social media in Notepad? The whole purpose of Notepad was that it was easy, simple to use, and it worked fast.<\/p>\n

\"Notepad<\/p>\n

How do you turn off Copilot \/ AI in Notepad?<\/p>\n

Notepad is still fast, but it\u2019s starting to feel bloated, at least out of the box. Thankfully, if you hate the idea of Notepad turning into an AI toy, you can turn off the feature from Settings > Copilot.<\/p>\n

\"Disable<\/p>\n

However, that does not really remove Copilot-related bits from the code of Notepad. It still stays within the app, but is hidden.<\/p>\n

AI is sadly here to stay in Notepad, Paint, and other apps. You can always bring back WordPad<\/a> if you want. Notepad++ always remains a better option.<\/p>\n

What do you think about AI in apps like Notepad?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI in Notepad is not exactly new, as it\u2019s been around for several months at this point, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-294424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}