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I am living in the stone age, really don't need any new feature in good old Notepad. Bad news.
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Oh gee, nothing is changing for you. Notepad is not a DOS program.
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Thanks, I know the difference between DOS and Windows 
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I still prefer vi for doing miracle text editing.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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David O'Neil wrote: For those living in the stone age...
I use other tools (including Notepad++) too, but criticizing the notepad like this... No way.
For some tasks is the best tool you can still find.
If they twist Notepad in Windows 10 they are not going to improve it. They are going to mess it.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Disagree.
The good news would be "Linux/Unix developers decide to adopt 54 year old ISO standard for how to code line endings".
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Give them some time, will you?  
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What's wrong with notepad? It's the quickest always available tool to edit and inspect configuration files.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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First, it lacks the OS functionality of emacs.
On the other hand: It does have decent editor functionality.
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Other new Notepad additions with this build, according to Microsoft:
I'll have to remember to use that phrase "new additions" when referring to bug fixes!
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Did they add the ability to format text?
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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The Find/Replace does need a thorough over-haul but beyond that, please, please, please just leave it alone - it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I thought maybe they had enabled AutoSave/Recover. I use Notepad windows as scratch areas when developing queries, debugging, refactoring, etc. I absolutely hate it when win10 decides to restart even when I have several unsaved notepad windows open!  It's happened more than a few times now. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Notepad++ has that feature
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One of my theories is that debugging is ignored because people working on these systems aren't aware of anything they could do to improve it Because the code works right the first time, every time?
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If the code is in the internet... it must work, mustn't it?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Because people would rather write articles about it, rather than do it ?
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Of course. Always.My code always works the first time I get it right.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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In announcing a new partnership with AMD, Synaptics dropped hints that a new security-focused OS from Microsoft is on the way. Microsoft Bob, Secure Edition?
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Microsoft had a secure O/S, called Windows NT. In order to improve its performance, they started moving all kinds of stuff from kernel mode to user mode, eventually resulting in the mess we have today.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Even that is insufficient - even security focused O/S such as OpenBSD have had security holes (admittedly not many). It can eliminate a vast number of potential issues, and make exploits less able to compromise the system as a whole, but a badly-behaved app can still do quite a lot of harm.
A full focus on security would probably require some way of verifying apps as well, similar to features in Microsoft's experimental Singularity O/S, where only managed code could be loaded and it had no way to break out of the sandbox. It may require using different languages - I cannot see C or C++ allowing app verification in a manageable way.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Obligatory Dilbert[^]
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Physicists have demonstrated that Parrondo's paradox—an apparent paradox in which two losing strategies combine to make a winning strategy—can emerge as a coin game with a single coin in the quantum realm, but only when the coin has three states (heads, tails, and a side) rather than the conventional two. Great news for people with three-headed coins (who have been wondering what to do with them)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Great news for people with three-headed coins (who have been wondering what to do with them)
Most coins already have 3 states as described (heads, tails and a side). They just don't often land on the side (although I have seen it happen).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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