Microsoft is adding AI-powered matter editing to Notepad, the stripped-down matter editor primitively introduced successful 1983. The feature, called Rewrite, is rolling retired successful preview to Windows Insiders and will fto you usage AI to “rephrase sentences, set tone, and modify the magnitude of your content,” according to the Windows Insider Blog.
If you’re a Windows Insider pinch early entree to the feature, you tin effort it by highlighting the matter you want to set successful Notepad, right-clicking it, and choosing Rewrite. Notepad will past show a speech container wherever you tin determine really they want to alteration their matter — for example, if it needs to beryllium longer aliases shorter. Rewrite will past connection 3 rewritten versions that you tin switch your activity with.
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It’s worthy noting that you’ll person to motion successful to your Microsoft relationship to usage Rewrite, arsenic it’s “powered by a cloud-based work that requires authentication and authorization.” Microsoft is launching this characteristic successful preview connected Windows 11 successful the US, France, UK, Canada, Italy, and Germany. In July, Microsoft yet upgraded Notepad pinch spell cheque and autocorrect.
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Along pinch bringing Rewrite to Notepad, Microsoft will fto Insiders commencement testing the caller AI image editing devices successful Paint previewed past month. The Generative Fill characteristic allows you to make additions to an image based connected a prompt, while the Generative Erase tin region portion of an image and blend successful the quiet abstraction near behind.
Generative Fill will “initially” rotation retired to testers pinch Copilot Plus PCs, but Generative Erase will beryllium disposable to each Insiders connected Windows 11.