Why can't it just be a basic text editor?!

Catch up with this week's Microsoft Weekly news recap about a shakeup at the company's gaming division, some changes to the ...

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who used their control to deliver backdoored ...

Microsoft has patched a severe security vulnerability tied to Notepad's Markdown feature. Here's what you need to know to remain safe.

Careful out there.

A veritable trove of computer history just scored big at auction: dozens of Apple goods, as well as items that Steve Jobs once owned, signed, and/or touched raked in a collective $8.1 million at RR ...

Microsoft patches CVE-2026-20841, a high-severity Windows Notepad flaw that could allow code execution via malicious Markdown ...

Ever opened a file and seen strange symbols or jumbled text? This post shows how to change the character encoding in Excel or Word.

According to Microsoft's release notes, the update fixes 25 elevation of privilege flaws, 12 remote code execution ...

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Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

Millions of Americans have allergies. You might sniffle and sneeze as the seasons change or get itchy and teary-eyed when you dust the house or pet an animal. Perhaps you start wheezing when you eat a ...