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Notepad's new Markdown powers served with a side of remote code execution

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 ...

Microsoft is adding images to Notepad, and users are wondering why

Microsoft is reportedly working on yet another "advanced" Notepad feature that has little to do with basic text editing.
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Microsoft confirms 8.8-rated security issue in Windows 11 Notepad due to modernization efforts, Patch Tuesday fix rolling out

Microsoft confirms CVE-2026-20841, a Remote Code Execution flaw in Windows 11 Notepad via Markdown links. Patch now rolling ...
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Notepad gets new features, while it's clobbered by new bug — highlighting everything that's wrong with Microsoft right now

Windows 11's Notepad app has some new features in testing These include a new AI twist and fresh formatting powers It's unfortunate timing, as Notepad has been hit by a new bug in Windows 11, ...
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Exclusive: Microsoft is adding image support to Notepad on Windows 11

Windows Latest has learned that Microsoft is adding image support to Notepad on Windows 11, and sources told us that the ...
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IT’S GEEK TO ME: Specially configured shortcut solves Notepad window size issue

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: I have a question about running Notepad under Windows 11: What registry setting can I tweak to get Notepad to ...