Microsoft employee accidentally announces Notepad is getting tabs in Windows 11

An employee of Microsoft accidentally announced that Windows 11's Notepad app will have tabs. A senior product manager at Microsoft posted a photo of a version of Notepad with tabs, enthusiastically announcing "Notepad in Windows 11 now has tabs!"

The mistake was spotted by several Windows enthusiast accounts and the mistake was quickly deleted. There is a Microsoft internal warning aboutConfidential Don't Discuss Features or Take Screenshots. The warning states that the tabs feature is still in early testing at Microsoft, but that the Notepad tabs feature may arrive to Windows Insiders early in the future.

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It will be the first built-in app to get a tabbed interface if Microsoft goes ahead with tabs for notepad. Four years ago, Microsoft tested tabs in all Windows 10 apps. The project was canceled by Microsoft and never shipped to Windows 10 users.

Tabs may appear in more built-in Windows apps after the addition of tabs in Notepad. Windows power users can still use third-party tools and apps to bring tabs to life in various parts of the operating system even though Microsoft has discontinued its sets feature.