They also introduced a critical security vulnerability into notepad where they just had the markdown links shell execute open link which allowed just installing arbitrary software as long as the link was valid instead of just opening a browser.

If you managed to get the file onto a person's you could execute it by having the person click on the link.

https://github.com/microsoft/edit

If for some reason you're stuck on windows, might I recommend notepad++ ?

Wordpad? I'll stick to Word Perfect 5.1, thank you very much.

GNU EMACS is RIGHT THERE in WINDOWS
You can INSTALL IT
(Well you can't install it, you kinda just dump it in Program Files)
PEOPLE have been EXTENDING it for DECADES SAFELY
WHAT are you WAITING FOR

Notepad's sole purpose is to remove formatting from copied text.

wait what the frick since when were they updating Notepad

Tabs were a welcome addition, but that's where the good idea train swiftly leaves the rails.

What we needed was a built-in hex editor, and maybe some better tools for working with unicode that you can't just type in on whatever keyboard you have.

Instead, they turned it into WordPad, which we already have.

Isn't notepad an LLM client now?

Unfortunately it has a use. Microsoft discontinued WordPad