Ever sinceMicrosoft killed WordPad last year, the company has been shoving all kinds of new features into its once-minimal Notepad app, hoping to turn it into some kind of AI-laden WordPad successor.
Microsoft is preparing to bring another change to the humble Notepad app ... Notepad was once just a simple tool for typing plain text, but that simplicity has steadily evolved over multiple updates ... How Notepad has been quietly changing.
Miscreants will need to find another avenue for malware shenanigans. Notepad++ has continued beefing up security with a release the project's author claims makes the "update process robust and effectively unexploitable." ... .
Even the company’s Notepad app, which once allowed users to jot down notes in plain text, has turned into a bloated, AI-enhanced security liability ... The latest Notepad bug is symptomatic of a much larger struggle for the tech giant.
Microsoft has patched a high-severity vulnerability in Windows 11's Notepad that allowed attackers to silently execute local or remote ... Notepad updates automatically through the Microsoft Store.
Microsoft has fixed a major security issue in Windows 11’s Notepad tool ... Microsoft recently updated Notepad in Windows 11 to add new features, including support for Markdown, a way to format text and add clickable links using simple symbols.
Smug faces across all those who opposed the WordPad-ification of Microsoft's humble text editor. Just months after Microsoft added Markdown support to Notepad, researchers have found the feature can be abused to achieve remote code execution (RCE) ...
At the risk of going into old-man-yells-at-cloud mode, I remember when Notepad was the most basic text editor around ... The latest problem comes from Notepad’s support of Markdown, a basic formatting system, which was added in July of 2025.