Longing for a plain, old-fashioned version of Microsoft Word without all the bells, whistles, and AI slop? One developer managed to coax Word 1.1a to run on today's Windows.

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of a new campaign that involves the use of a malicious program that's dressed up as a Notepad++ plugin to compromise Windows ...

Tech pro ThioJoe shows how to safely run Notepad and Microsoft Store apps inside a Windows Sandbox environment. Manchester-bound plane carrying 230 forced to land in Russia as emergency crews swarm ...

As its name implies, the venerable Notepad++ text editor began as a more capable version of the classic Windows Notepad, with features such as line numbering and syntax highlighting. It was created in ...

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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 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 ...

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