This big update introduced a whole new version of Notepad with a totally modernized UI, featuring transparency effects and, ...

You can continue to use Notepad and Paint without a subscription, but you won’t get these new features. It’s surprising because Microsoft has never put anything in these apps behind a paywall ...

Notepad is the quickest way to jot down your ... app's opacity to give it an acrylic background effect (it can't be fully transparent, though). The app's accent color can also be customized ...