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Ex-Microsoft engineer rebuilds Notepad in 2.5KB using nothing but stuff Windows already had

Summary by Windows Latest
Dave Plummer, the retired Microsoft engineer who built Task Manager and helped ship Space Cadet Pinball, has recreated Notepad in roughly 2.5 kilobytes. The project is called TinyRetroPad, and despite the size (or lack of it), it still has Open, Save, Find and Replace, printing, font selection, word wrap, and the unsaved changes prompt, packed into an executable that is significantly smaller than the featured image above this paragraph. Source: …
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Windows Latest broke the news on Saturday, July 4, 2026.
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