Though it’s intentionally simple and there are some excellent alternatives, Microsoft’s humble Notepad text editor has gained a massive following through sheer ubiquity. Today it finally gets a ...

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

Just the other day, Windows released Insider Preview Build 26020 to kick off the new year with a handful of new features and capabilities. However, this update also took away some features with the ...

Microsoft keeps improving and adding more features to the Windows 11 Notepad application, the latest being a built-in character counter. Until now, users who needed a quick way to count characters in ...

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

Microsoft announced today that the Windows 11 Notepad application is getting a text formatting feature supporting Markdown-style input. The feature is being introduced one year after Microsoft removed ...

Microsoft continues to improve Notepad with useful features in Windows 11. Microsoft continues to improve Notepad with useful features in Windows 11. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has ...

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 ...