Notepad — the program Microsoft was afraid to touch for forty years

For forty years, Microsoft was afraid to touch Notepad. This is what the headline of an article about the simplest Windows program says. The untitled window familiar to many sits in the taskbar. Inside is a phone number without a name. A guest Wi-Fi password. Something else you'd hate to lose. The author describes Notepad as a place for small, useful notes. No formatting, no extra buttons — just text. Over forty years, the window has barely changed. For the author, it remains the same simple notepad it has always been.