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?”

  • Random_Character_A@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    It has always been the problem with Micro$oft products. You don’t use them the way you want or need to. You use them the way Micro$oft envisioned it.