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

PCWorld reports that Microsoft is adding image support to Notepad, bringing a feature previously exclusive to WordPad to the basic text editor. The update includes a dedicated image button in the ...

Notepad has quietly evolved over the past few years, and image support could mark its biggest shift yet, especially after ...

Microsoft fixes a critical Notepad vulnerability in Windows 11 that could allow remote code execution via malicious Markdown ...

The big picture: Microsoft released its latest Patch Tuesday update this week with 59 hotfixes across Windows, Microsoft Office, Azure, and core system components. The update includes patches for six ...

The recently compromised update mechanism for the popular open source text editor Notepad ++ has been hardened so it’s now ...

Things spiraled from there. After users found simple workarounds for the new rule, like spelling it “Microsl0p,” the ...

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

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

Notepad++, a free open source text and code editor for the Windows operating system, suffered an "infrastructure-level compromise" last year by threat actors seeking to deliver malware to selected ...

Users could be tricked into running arbitrary code, but the issue was patched last week.

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