Editor's take: Dave Plummer started his programmer's career at Microsoft back in the MS-DOS days. He knows a thing or two about code optimization, which is why he is now trying to strip Notepad of the ...

Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer comes from an era at Microsoft when Notepad handled the simple stuff, and WordPad ...

Markdown keeps your notes portable, permanent, and AI-ready.

Wondering how to save a webpage as a PDF on your iPhone or iPad? It’s easier than you think, honest. We’ve rounded up all the ...

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 ...

Backing up your Pragmata save file, or otherwise knowing where to find it, can be incredibly helpful for data preservation and restoration or potential troubleshooting. Thankfully, the save file isn’t ...

A federal appeals court ordered the end to the SAVE plan, the Biden administration-era program used by millions of student loan borrowers. The lawsuits against the affordable repayment plan have led ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ordered the end of the Saving on a Valuable Education Plan (SAVE) on Monday. According to a judgment issued from the court, the U.S. Court of Appeals ...

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 ...

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.