Though it's intentionally simple and there are some excellent alternatives, Microsoft's humble Notepad text editor has gained a massive following through sheer ubiquity. Today it finally gets a feature that even the best writers (and also I) can't live without: spell check. The feature is now live in the latest Windows 11 Insider build. According to Wikipedia, the Notepad program is actually older than Windows itself, going all the way back to the Multi-Tool Notepad program that was included in the MS-DOS update which introduced mouse support in 1983. Then, as now, it was a faster and less resource-intensive alternative to Microsoft Word -- and the fact that it was free with the operating system didn't hurt. It's since become a feature in every single release of Windows.