Fed up with Microsoft bloating Notepad? An Ex-Microsoft engineer has shrunk it down to 2.5KB somehow.

Microsoft has released a preview version of the next Windows update for members of the Windows Insider Program. It brings ...

Even if you're perfectly content with Windows 10, you'll soon need to switch to Windows 11 for security reasons. We compare ...

If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...

Recently, there was news floating around that the popular, lightweight Windows text editor Notepad++ was finally making its way to macOS, 22 years after its initial release. Now, its creator, Don Ho, ...

The popular Notepad++ coding editor is now available as a native macOS app, following an unofficial open-source community port of the original Windows codebase. The Notepad replacement runs as a ...

Create a Table in Notepad using the Formatting toolbar Insert a Table in Notepad using the right-click menu Create a Table in Notepad using Markdown Syntax. Press the left mouse button, and the table ...

Microsoft spent the past two years putting Copilot everywhere inside Windows 11. Now it is quietly taking some of it back. The company has begun removing Copilot buttons from built-in Windows 11 apps ...

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 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 ...

The recently compromised update mechanism for the popular open source text editor Notepad ++ has been hardened so it’s now ‘effectively unexploitable’, says the application’s author. Don Ho made the ...