This may mean that Notepad++ is no longer be a mandatory install on my Windows machines.

"For many years..." Lol. Just a few.

This could be the highest "time to fix" to "obviousness and ease of fix" ratio for any bug, ever.

+Matt Giuca Just like all Windows changes, there's also a registry setting to go back to the legacy behavior.

I'm glad that Microsoft is (if only by market necessity) much more willing to inter-operate with other systems.