Catch up with this week's Microsoft Weekly news recap about a shakeup at the company's gaming division, some changes to the Windows 11 Canary channel, and more.

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

A command injection flaw in the Windows Notepad App now gives remote attackers a path to execute code over a network, turning one of the most familiar programs on any PC into a potential entry point ...

Almost any game is improved when played with friends. If you don't have any, well, you can make some. That's why we jumped into some of the most popular multiplayer servers around to find the best, ...

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

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

Notepad has quietly evolved over the past few years, and image support could mark its biggest shift yet, especially after Microsoft removed WordPad from Windows and left a gap for richer editing. The ...

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

The Detroit project envisioned using JavaScript as an extension language for Java applications. Now it’s being revived with ...

The app's simplicity and real-time syncing across devices make it a reliable choice for everyday note-taking ...

In other findings in the report: 18% had already adopted Java Development Kit (JDK) 25, the most recent Long Term Support (LTS) release, which became available in September 2025. 64% said more than ...

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who used their control to deliver backdoored ...