Microsoft wedges tables into Notepad for some reason

Microsoft is shoveling yet more features into the venerable Windows Notepad. This time it's support for tables, with some AI enhancements lathered on top.

Notepad might predate Windows, but Microsoft is still keen to add features to it. After adding support for Markdown in June, replete with simple text formatting options, Microsoft has now added table support.

The new functionality is rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels, and "you can now easily insert tables in your document to help structure your notes," according to Microsoft.

We're not sure who was clamoring for this feature, which, to be frank, would be better suited to a rich text editor. Microsoft already had one of those – WordPad – but removed it from Windows in 2024.

While some might be relieved Microsoft is not stuffing yet more AI into Notepad, it has been tweaking what is already there ...