Notepad
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Sep 15, 2026
Nathan TaylorHOST
You can't really see it in the Loop interface 'cause it just looks like a OneNote document.
Nathan TaylorHOST
It looks just like a Notepad document.
Nathan TaylorHOST
But under the hood, Microsoft's actually storing that data in Markdown format, and Markdown is a really useful format for AI to understand the data.
Nathan TaylorHOST
It's one of the better ways for AI to pull in and reference the data.
Paul ThurrottHOST
Um, oddly, in Paint, um, they left it, right? [chuckles] So, uh, for whatever reason, in Microsoft Paint here, there's still a Copilot icon and then whatever options you get depending on the type of PC you have.
Paul ThurrottHOST
But in Notepad, they got rid of it, right? And so the tools are all still there.
Paul ThurrottHOST
These writing tools still exist.
Paul ThurrottHOST
They work just like they did before, but they don't, you know, the, the offensive, uh, Copilot icon is gone.
Paul ThurrottHOST
Um, oddly, in Paint, um, they left it, right? So, uh, for whatever reason, in Microsoft Paint here, there's still a Copilot icon, and then whatever options you get, depending on the type of PC you have.
Paul ThurrottHOST
But in Notepad, they got rid of it, right? And so the tools are all still there.
Paul ThurrottHOST
These writing tools still exist.
Paul ThurrottHOST
They work just like they did before, but they don't, you know, the, the offensive, uh, Copilot icon is gone.
RobHOST
... [laughs] the real estate.
StubbsHOST
I like Notepad.
AndrewPANELIST
Text is stupid.
StubbsHOST
Notepad-
AndrewPANELIST
Give me a-
RobHOST
[laughs]
Andrew GrantGUEST
Because it did that, it then went back to the desktop, didn't reboot, then blanked again, then went back to the desktop.
Andrew GrantGUEST
So after a few times of watching it do this and realizing, OK, they're logging into this machine, I opened up Notepad and I wrote a message and I said, you know, look, this is getting kind of stale.
Andrew GrantGUEST
You guys need to get some new material.
Andrew GrantGUEST
And just left it sitting there with Notepad open on the screen because I knew that they could see the desktop, right? And I'm watching them connect in and out.
Andrew GrantGUEST
Right.
Andrew GrantGUEST
Then the screen blanks and two minutes later unblanks and in that same notepad window under where I had written the message they just wrote no.
Andrew GrantGUEST
And so I was looking in the network traffic and I saw the names of all these things.
Andrew GrantGUEST
I'm like, oh, it's reading the title bar.
Robert JohnsonGUEST
Yes, we know exactly who made the change, when they made the change, what process was used to make the change.
Robert JohnsonGUEST
For instance, they went into Notepad and made a change to a file.
Robert JohnsonGUEST
We're going to tell you Notepad was used.
Robert JohnsonGUEST
Here was the thread ID, the process ID, the user they made the change.
Robert JohnsonGUEST
and sometimes even an IP address for which they came.
Gary BeeneGUEST
I have the book reader that I mentioned.
Gary BeeneGUEST
I have a simple notepad, kind of like Windows Notepad.
Gary BeeneGUEST
And recently, I have a new program called Easy Bible.
Gary BeeneGUEST
And I have games.
Anthony HobdayHOST
Um, yeah, so that was simple.
Anthony HobdayHOST
And then obviously you had things like, uh, Notepad, which was even simpler and did offer some basic formatting, but really wasn't, um, a word processor.
Katie LangermanHOST
Yep.
Anthony HobdayHOST
Uh, this all sort of leads me onto my final note, which is Tesla's law.
Michael KennedyHOST
The answer was Microsoft Excel.
Michael KennedyHOST
Sean Chua had written some HTML by hand in Notepad way back in high school.
Michael KennedyHOST
That was about the entirety of his programming experience.
Michael KennedyHOST
Even so, he opened the Django tutorial and started reading.
8 MINS LATER
Michael KennedyHOST
What was your programming experience at this point? How good of a programmer were you?
Shaun ChuahGUEST
[laughs] So I, I wasn't very good of a programmer.
Shaun ChuahGUEST
I mean, what I did was basically, uh, di- uh, you know, write some websites in high school, and back in those days, we used to use Notepad.
Shaun ChuahGUEST
We, we used-
Zac BowdenHOST
It just shows recent files, which is super cool.
Zac BowdenHOST
They pulled out the Copilot buttons from a number of apps, including Notepad, Photos, and Paint, uh, with more...
Zac BowdenHOST
Oh, sorry.
Zac BowdenHOST
Yeah, with more to come in the future as well.
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