Remember when Notepad was just… Notepad? A simple text editor nobody asked to be modernized?

Yeah, Microsoft didn’t care either. They bolted on Markdown support and AI features anyway. And now we’ve got CVE-2026-20841. Remote code execution. Via a text file. This is the kind of thing that makes you go “oh come on, really?”

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    8 hours ago

    Yes but I bet the young developers at Microslop have never used notepad or wordpad or even windows 95, so they think the best apps are made in electron with JavaScript.