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2026-02-11 07:29 UTC

@solonovamax@tech.lgbt A decade ago, if you told IT security people that this would happen, you'd have been laughed out of the room. 1985, it released with Windows 1.0 1990, the Windows 3.0 version added a Help menu. I think it basically was unchanged until Windows 10 when they decided it'd be a good idea to support Unix line endings. There might've been file size limit increases in that time too… but the UI was basically unchanged. Then some bright spark decided it needed AI.

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  • @StryderNotavi@aus.social 2026-02-11 07:49

    @solonovamax@tech.lgbt @stuartl@mastodon.longlandclan.id.au I went and tried to find if there's ever been a prior CVE for notepad and came up empty. So decent odds that this is the first CVE Windows Notepad has ever had. That's an accomplishment, just not of the good kind.

    Open ##3192012

  • @stuartl@mastodon.longlandclan.id.au 2026-02-13 02:20

    @solonovamax@tech.lgbt For those who are curious, there's a JavaScript VM where you can play around with these in your browser: https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/windows/1.00/ is what Notepad first looked like… you can run it by double-clicking the `NOTEPAD.EXE` in the MS-DOS Executive window once Windows 1.0 has booted. https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/windows/3.00/ is the form that most people here would have seen it in. You'll find Notepad under Accessories. Windows 3.0 introduced an online help feature, hence the new "Help" menu. It basically was unchanged from there. A few years later, it became 32-bit, but still looked and worked the same. Sadly, they do not have a Windows NT 3.1 image on that site, but they have Windows 95 there: https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/windows/win95/4.00.950/ (Blows my mind actually that Windows 95 can run in a web browser today… but here we are.) I seem to recall the Windows 7 one looked pretty much identical. It did its job, until the day it didn't.

    Open ##3192016