Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and development, start-ups and the tech industry overseas. LAS VEGAS--Microsoft is set to unveil on Sunday new ...

Microsoft has included Notepad with Windows for well over 40 years. If you are a coder or want to jot down notes, it’s a perfect utility. You probably already know that Notepad has spellcheck and ...

If you have a Web or other computer-based small business, you might find that you need to do some Java programming. Java is a cross-platform programming language from Oracle that anyone can use. One ...

Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is ...

Think of EtherCodes as EtherPad for developers. Featuring line numbers and syntax highlighting, it lets you code with a group, in a web browser, in realtime, without sacrificing some of the comforts ...

One of Microsoft's oldest apps is about to get a new collection of features. Notepad, which has been around since 1983, will soon support lightweight formatting and Markdown. Windows Insiders in the ...

N otepad++ just dropped version 8.8.6, and now you can finally paste multiple lines of text directly into the Find and ...

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Migrating text from one word processing program or word editor to another can pose various problems. The text often copies over fine but the formatting, such as bullets, paragraphs, fonts, point size, ...