Admittedly it’s just a leak, but it’s quite plausible: The Windows editor, also known as notepad.exe, should soon support tabs. This is suggested by a screenshot that a Microsoft employee published on Twitter and then removed shortly afterwards. The tweet, however, thanks to the Wayback Machine still watch. Ironically, the screenshot itself contains an explicit confidentiality warning and a request not to take screenshots.
It would be obvious that the tabs for the editor would appear on the computer in a similar way to the recent file explorer in Windows 11 Version 22H2: As part of a “moment” update, in which Microsoft will provide small packages of new features via cumulative updates and/or Store -App updates distributed. Unless Microsoft discards the tab feature again for some unknown reason, it should appear in the foreseeable future first for the “Windows Insider” beta test community.
Better late than never
The addition of tabs to essential Windows tools sometimes elicits a certain amusement, because not only various Linux and other desktop environments, but also alternative Windows editors like Notepad++ have supported tabs for eons. Nevertheless, the tabs are a small but welcome improvement, simply because there are likely to be a number of (company) computers on which the installation of alternative editors is not permitted.
(jss)