The New Notepad

Microsoft seem to produce versions of Windows so quickly these days that before you can manage to get used to the one that they seemingly only just produced; they’re beta testing another.

(If you look back to the turn of the century you’ll notice that the situation was rather similar: 2000 followed ME, (Or was it the other way round? It all happened so fast!) which was closely followed by XP – Then a big long six-year gap…And Vista: FAIL.)

There are a few things that never change though; and here I refer particularly to Notepad. Unchanging, primitive, basic, functional, simple. But even the MS-DOS text editor that’s been around since the year dot is more capable.

In Windows 7, that’s going to change at last. Notepad is getting an overhaul.

Notepad 2008 is a piece of software that brings to you the best of the proposed Windows 7 notepad design. Not only does it come with several inbuilt themes with which it is possible to customize it to your liking to a certain extent, but it has the Office 2007 ribbon feature, and a tabbed interface in order to simplify the job of editing files even further

Notepad 2008 doesn’t require installation. I unzipped the program in XP to its own folder in Program Files, created a shortcut to the .exe file which I placed on the desktop and from which I run it. It is freeware, too.

On that note, I’d recommend you download it, unzip it, and use it.

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Greg
Did you really need to write “And Vista: FAIL.”? If even you don’t like vista.

http://kkomp.com Sharron (kkomp)
Vista isn’t exactly one of Microsoft’s success stories is it? Basically all it did was advertise how good XP was and drive people to Linux and Mac.
Having said that I do appreciate that there are some people who like it: I have a friend who absolutely loves it…But overall the launch onwards was one of, if not the greatest one of, Microsoft’s biggest failures since ME: Driver and hardware incompatibility were major issues due to M$’s secret development policy and their reticence to disclose hardware requirements to the component manufacturers; although granted those manufacturers were also slow off the mark.
Even after the hardware was being made to the correct standard; Vista proved to be full of bugs. Even after the final retail release of SP1 – Which took down a few systems – Vista is till slower in some departments than XP, despite its grandiose hardware and memory requirements.
It’s not so much a case of myself not liking Vista as it is of the facts speaking for themselves. I am, in all honesty, what could be described as a “wintard”; but in my opinion to give any comment on Vista other than “FAIL” wouldn’t be keeping true to myself and my feelings about the operating system.
Your opinion may be different; and I respect that fact. I apologise for any offence caused by my words.