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?”
Why, you know on Earth, would they add “ai” to notepad of all things?
“Why not?” retorts Mr. Nadella, as a grin begins to form. He exchanges a meaningful look with Mr. Suleyman.