But when you're at the level of MS Teams, I absolutely agree - that app could be far better tuned. And to be fair, for simple use cases, it's works well. Electron is basically the Java Applets/AWT/Swing of our time, because it lets teams prioritize features and delivery speed over great, performant, UX. Good cross-platform UI is hard, and web technology is seen as an 'easy' way out because you can hire plenty of resources and yes - it does seem silly to reinvent the wheel when HTML/CSS have implemented something already. Windows 11 seems to be addressing it in a better way, it still has ways to go, the Task Manager, for example, does not have a dark theme yet.> Everything is now a bloated Electron app where all the features have been deleted Windows 10 had many inconsistencies with regard to Dark mode. If you're enrolled into the Insider Program, open the Microsoft Store and check for updates, and it should fetch the new Notepad app.

The Insider Preview build's version number was 10.2103.6.0 before the update, the new app's version is 11.2110.64.0. Shift clicking on text may result in unexpected behavior, scrolling down text could be glitchy.įor reference, the current version of Notepad on the Windows 11 stable build is 10.2103.6.0.

There is an issue that affects access keys usage, which seems to occur when switching between different input languages or while using the Japanese IME. According to the official blog post by Microsoft, the new version has some known issues. The overall Notepad experience remains the same, but the new options are welcome additions.

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