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Windows Notepad
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<p>Windows Notepad is a simple <a href="/facts/Text_editor/jPCgtbvN">text editor</a> for <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Windows/bwhAhuSL">Windows</a>; it creates and edits <a href="/facts/Plain_text/TSlSSAg2">plain text</a> documents. It was first released in 1983 to commercialize the computer mouse keyboard in <a href="/facts/MS-DOS/fVrrz1uN">MS-DOS</a>. </p>