A rumor of Notepad for Windows 11 now requiring Microsoft Account sign-in has spread like wildfire, but all is not as it seems.

A prompt to sign in to an MS account upon opening Notepad sent many people into a stir, but they're making mountains out of molehills.

Impending worry about future app requirements following this trend. Okay, I'm not going to lie. When I heard down the news grapevines that Microsoft was asking people to sign into an account to use Notepad,

If you want to use the Notepad Rewrite AI feature, you have to log in with a Microsoft account, but your information will be collected.

M icrosoft's Notepad has been around for over four decades. The simple text editor has remained largely unchanged for much of that time, though it has seen a surge in development