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 ...

However, with the release of Windows 11, Microsoft decided to discontinue WordPad and remove it from Windows. Instead, Microsoft rewrote Notepad to modernize it so it could act as both a simple text ...

Notepad has changed so dramatically over the decades of its existence, that it can hardly be considered the same app anymore. With Microsoft having killed off WordPad (which was, initially, more ...

Microsoft has begun rolling out a new Notepad update to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels. The update introduces two big additions to the Windows 11 text editor: table support, and ...

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

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Notepad has been around for more than 40 years, and throughout that time, Microsoft made simple software free, but that time has now come to an end, or at ...