It’s finally happening! The Notepad app for Windows Insiders has officially ditched Copilot branding in favour of a subtler “Writing tools” icon. Earlier, Notepad had a very prominent, colorful ...

Editor's take: Microsoft is having a tough time leaving Windows Notepad well enough alone. The classic text editor is effectively gone, replaced by a "new" version that keeps accumulating a growing ...

Microsoft is preparing to bring another change to the humble Notepad app. According to Windows Latest, internal testing on Windows 11 shows that the classic text editor is gaining full image support.

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 ...

Microsoft patches CVE-2026-20841, a high-severity Windows Notepad flaw that could allow code execution via malicious Markdown files. Notepad has long been Windows’ quiet utility knife. It opens ...

Users could be tricked into running arbitrary code, but the issue was patched last week. February 17, 2026 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Microsoft patched a ...

TL;DR: Notepad++ was compromised for six months, but it wasn't the software itself which the exploit leveraged, but its hosting provider. An investigation into the attack has just been concluded with ...

A China-linked threat actor known as Lotus Blossom has been attributed with medium confidence to the recently discovered compromise of the infrastructure hosting Notepad++. The attack enabled the ...

Microsoft is rolling out new artificial intelligence features with the latest updates to the Notepad and Paint apps for Windows 11 Insiders. These changes are rolling out to Windows Insiders in the ...

Microsoft is adding more stuff to some of Windows 11's inbox apps. This time, Notepad and Paint get new features, including new formatting tools, AI, and more. Microsoft has no new Windows 11 preview ...

The powerful and popular open-source text editor Notepad++ made headlines in early December, as attackers in Southeast Asia were specifically injecting malware to victims, partly due to the use of ...

AI in Notepad is not exactly new, as it’s been around for several months at this point, but Microsoft is now putting effort into improving the integration. A new update for Notepad’s Copilot ...