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 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. Image: Microsoft. Notepad has long been Windows’ quiet utility ...

After more than six decades of cleaning up messes, Mr. Clean is "retiring." In a Thursday, Feb. 18 news conference, Mr. Clean announced that he was "hanging up his whites" and taking some much-needed ...

As Microsoft continues to force AI features onto users of its Windows operating system and other crucial software, glaring issues keep cropping up. Executives have promised to turn the platform into ...

LITTLETON, Colorado, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The world's top polluter crossed a critical energy transition threshold in 2025 by deploying more clean power capacity than fossil fuel generation capacity for ...

However, it's unclear why Microsoft didn't just prevent non-standard links in the first place, as it is still possible to social engineer users into clicking the 'Yes' button on the prompts. The good ...

Bad actors could use the flaw to remotely load and execute malicious files on a victim’s computer. Bad actors could use the flaw to remotely load and execute malicious files on a victim’s computer. is ...

PCWorld reports that Windows Notepad’s new Markdown support feature has introduced a serious remote code execution vulnerability with a high CVSS score of 8.8/7.7. The security flaw allows malicious ...

The big picture: Microsoft released its latest Patch Tuesday update this week with 59 hotfixes across Windows, Microsoft Office, Azure, and core system components. The update includes patches for six ...

In this video, we explore the new Clean Data button in Excel, which utilizes AI to automate data cleaning. We examine its effectiveness in cleaning text values, numbers, removing spaces, and ...