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 ...

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

Microsoft is reportedly expanding Notepad on Windows 11 with Copilot-powered text streaming and richer Markdown support, ...

Windows 11 has quietly added a new feature to your PC: AI-powered editing to the Windows 11 Notepad app, called Rewrite. In November, Microsoft began testing the addition of AI rewrite capabilities in ...

Microsoft confirms CVE-2026-20841, a Remote Code Execution flaw in Windows 11 Notepad via Markdown links. Patch now rolling ...

In March, Microsoft started testing an update to the venerable Notepad app that added spellcheck and autocorrect to the app’s limited but slowly growing set of capabilities. The update that adds these ...

There's a remote code execution vulnerability in Notepad which is leveraged via the recently introduced formatting abilities to make tables in the app.

Want to stop Notepad from opening previously opened files? If you want to start over each time you launch Notepad anew, you can turn off the setting that makes Notepad restore previously opened files ...

Valve is getting ready to capitalize on its impressive SteamOS work. Valve is getting ready to capitalize on its impressive SteamOS work. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been ...