Clearly, the fashion for artificial intelligence is not going to stop anytime soon. It seems that Microsoft is preparing to put AI in Notepad. Windows 11.
Long unloved and abandoned in Microsoft’s software limbo, the Notepad app recently received several interesting new features. Automatic saving, sign counting function, improved interface… What was for a long time an old abandoned piece of software from older versions of Windows is finally being modernized. And it’s not over, because Notepad should soon offer functions linked to artificial intelligence.
A Notepad on steroids
As an Internet user on Twitter/X discovered, future versions of the application should include an assistant called “Cowriter” who should help you reformulate or rewrite your prose. Linked to the famous “Copilot” function that Microsoft wants to include in all PCs, Cowriter will offer to shorten or lengthen your sentences, change the formatting or even the tone of what you write.
It seems that, a bit like with the integration of DALL-E in Paint, the use of Cowriter is limited via a “credits” system. Once the balance allocated to your Microsoft account has been used, you will have to wait a certain amount of time before you can use the functionality again. The feature will likely be limited to a small number of waitlisted users, based on evidence unearthed in the app’s code.
The beginnings of Windows 12
An image of the feature in action is also visible in an executable lying around the net. You can see a pop-up window indicating the number of credits remaining, the different rewriting options and rewording suggestions made by Cowriter. The plethora of clues hidden in the code suggests that the feature could arrive, or at least be announced by Microsoft, very soon.
This forceps integration of AI into its system, even if it means embedding it in the most basic software of its OS, is a sign that Microsoft is banking heavily on this trend. We already knew that Windows 12 was going to blur the lines between local processing and processing in the cloud in order to boost the use of AI, but it seems that Microsoft wants to get a little ahead of the game and offer as many features as possible directly within of Windows 11. And too bad if you preferred your basic and rudimentary Notepad.
Source : Twitter via WindowsCentral
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