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

TL;DR: Microsoft is ushering in a lightweight text editor for Windows 11 called Edit, which it says pays homage to the classic MS-DOS Editor experience, but with a suitably modern interface. It's ...

TL;DR: Microsoft's Notepad, a simple text editor, is introducing a new AI 'Rewrite' feature in version 11.2410.15.0 for Windows Insiders on Windows 11. This feature allows users to rephrase sentences, ...

Microsoft is now testing an AI-powered text summarization feature in Notepad and a Snipping Tool "Draw & Hold" feature that helps draw perfect shapes. Dubbed "Summarize," the new and highly-requested ...

Microsoft has started testing AI-powered Notepad text rewriting and Paint image generation tools four decades after the two programs were released in the 1980s. These AI "experiences" (as the company ...

A command injection flaw in the Windows Notepad App now gives remote attackers a path to execute code over a network, turning ...

Whatever else you can say about Windows 11—and whatever you think about its pushy tendencies and the Copilot feature that has been rolled out to pretty much everyone despite being labeled a ...

Even the company’s Notepad app, which once allowed users to jot down notes in plain text, has turned into a bloated, ...

PCWorld reports that Microsoft is adding image support to Notepad, bringing a feature previously exclusive to WordPad to the basic text editor. The update includes a dedicated image button in the ...

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

The flaw exploits Notepad’s recently added support for Markdown, a formatting language used on websites and in files, to run malicious code on a Windows PC.

Careful out there.