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

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 ...

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Canonicalization happens both before and after rendering. Conflicting canonical signals between raw HTML and JavaScript output can cause unexpected indexing results. Google recommends setting the ...

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 ...

TL;DR: Microsoft Notepad for Windows 11 now supports table creation with an easy toolbar grid and enhanced AI-powered Write, Rewrite, and Summarize tools for faster text generation. While these ...

Microsoft has begun rolling out Notepad updates to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels. The new version, 11.2510.6.0, introduces two new features. The first adds table support to Notepad, ...

Microsoft is adding free AI-powered text writing capabilities to Notepad for customers with Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11. Currently, this change is being rolled out to Windows 11 Insiders in the ...

Google is apparently having trouble identifying paywalled content due to a standard way paywalled content is handled by publishers like news sites. It’s asking that publishers with paywalled content ...

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 ...

Notepad now lets you use markdown text formatting on Windows 11, which means you can write in Notepad just like you could in WordPad. The new formatting feature is turned on by default, and you just ...