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

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

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.

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 ...

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

AI-related changes to Notepad allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code on your computer. The vulnerability was related to ...

PCWorld reports that Windows Notepad’s new Markdown support feature has introduced a serious remote code execution vulnerability with a high CVSS score of 8.8/7.7. The security flaw allows malicious ...

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 ...

Microsoft is reportedly expanding Notepad’s feature set on Windows 11, rolling out Copilot-powered AI text streaming and enhanced Markdown formatting to a wider set of users. The features, which were ...

In context: Microsoft is going in some very wild directions with Windows development, with Notepad being one of the most outstanding guinea pigs in AI and design experimentations. Notepad now has the ...