A Microsoft employee accidentally announced that Notepad will have tabs in Windows 11. He immediately retracted his statement, but it was seen by many people and the news leaked out.
A Microsoft employee appears to have accidentally announced that Windows 11's Notepad app is getting a tabs feature.
The employee, a senior product manager at Microsoft, tweeted a photo of a version of Notepad that had tabs, excitedly announcing "Notepad in Windows 11 now has tabs!".
The tweet was deleted a few minutes later, but not before several Windows-enthusiast Twitter accounts had spotted the news. They managed to copy the snapshot screens of the Notebook, which also included an internal Microsoft warning: “Confidential. Do not discuss features or take screenshots”.!!!!!
This warning suggests that the tab feature is still in early internal testing at Microsoft, but also that the tab feature in Notepad may be coming to Windows Insiders sometime in early 2023.
Microsoft initially tested tabs on all applications of Windows 10, four years ago, in a feature called Sets. This included support for tabs within Notepad and the File exploration, but Microsoft eventually canceled the project and never shipped it to Windows 10 users.
