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?”
A few months ago (maybe a year) I found myself in a situation where I had to uninstall and re-install the native Calculator to Windows because of some error. How in the hell did they mess up a calculator? Well the same way they probably messed up the closest thing we have to pencil and paper on Windows.