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

If a user opened this Markdown file in Windows 11 Notepad versions 11.2510 and earlier and viewed it in Markdown mode, the above text would appear as a clickable link. If the link is clicked with ...

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Notepad++ has adopted a "double-lock" design for its update mechanism to address recently exploited security gaps that ...

Microsoft patches CVE-2026-20841, a high-severity Windows Notepad flaw that could allow 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 ...

Notepad, one of the oldest and most reliable apps in the Windows ecosystem, has been undergoing some big changes during the Copilot AI era. Unfortunately, one of its new features was prone to a ...

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

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

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