The interface is wonderfully uneventful, which is exactly how I like my text editors.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company is investing in Windows 11 quality and fundamentals, continuing a push toward better performance, reliability, and everyday usability.

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I spent a lifetime working at Microsoft. In the early 1990s, I began building and supporting Windows 3.x environments in a ...

CERT-UA warns Russia-aligned UAC-0099 is hiding LUNCHPOKE, BURNYBEAR, and MATCHBOIL.V2 inside a fake plugin bundled with Notepad++ 8.8.3, targeting Ukrainian defense organizations via phishing. The ...

How did Notepad become bloated?

Hello, I'm Hide! I'm taking on the challenge of AI development and blog writing in my 50s. What do you usually use when drafting your note articles? Many people might think that the Notepad app that ...

Editor's take: Microsoft is having a tough time leaving Windows Notepad well enough alone. The classic text editor is effectively gone, replaced by a "new" version that keeps accumulating a growing ...

Microsoft is preparing to bring another change to the humble Notepad app. According to Windows Latest, internal testing on Windows 11 shows that the classic text editor is gaining full image support.

Microsoft patches CVE-2026-20841, a high-severity Windows Notepad flaw that could allow code execution via malicious Markdown files. Notepad has long been Windows’ quiet utility knife. It opens ...

Microsoft continues to move Notepad away from its text-editing roots with planned support for images. Although not officially announced, an image icon has appeared on the Notepad toolbar for Windows ...

Users could be tricked into running arbitrary code, but the issue was patched last week. February 17, 2026 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Microsoft patched a ...