Is Notepad getting too bloated these days? If you're of that opinion, you won't like what Microsoft has planned next.

At the risk of going into old-man-yells-at-cloud mode, I remember when Notepad was the most basic text editor around. Some coders and writers liked the program—which comes included in every single ...

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Microsoft is reportedly working on yet another "advanced" Notepad feature that has little to do with basic text editing.

Why can't it just be a basic text editor?!

Notepad has quietly evolved over the past few years, and image support could mark its biggest shift yet, especially after Microsoft removed WordPad from Windows and left a gap for richer editing. The ...

Microsoft patches CVE-2026-20841, a high-severity Windows Notepad flaw that could allow code execution via malicious Markdown ...

The developer of the popular open source text editor Notepad++ has confirmed that hackers hijacked the software to deliver malicious updates to users over the course of several months in 2025. In a ...

Security researchers believe that Chinese hackers are to blame for the attack in part because of the "selective" nature of ...