Notepad — the Program Microsoft Was Afraid to Touch for Forty Years

For forty years, Microsoft was afraid to touch Notepad. That's what says the headline of a piece about the simplest program in Windows. The familiar untitled window sits in the taskbar. Inside — a phone number with no name. A guest password for the Wi-Fi. Something else you'd hate to lose. The author describes Notepad as a place for small, useful notes. No styling, no extra buttons — just text. Over forty years, the window has barely changed. To the author, it remains the same simple notepad it has always been.