Posted by andreynering 14 hours ago
- Notepad: Plain Text
- Wordpad: Rich Text
- Word: Documents
Seriously? Markdown is the preferred method for rich text these days, so why didn't they just turn WordPad into a WYSIWYG Markdown editor?
They also shove Copilot into it, but that's a whole different problem. Who is this current iteration of Notepad actually made for?
Meanwhile, 2 weeks ago:
Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
(2004 is the year Markdown was invented. Notepad got introduced in 1983 and actually predates Windows)