Microsoft just released ‘Edit’ as a new command-line text editor, which will soon be a built-in Windows application. It’s inspired by the MS-DOS Edit program from the 1990s, and it’s already ...

You can now use Microsoft Edit to create and edit text files directly in Command Prompt or PowerShell without switching apps, ...

At the Microsoft Build conference this year, the company announced it will include a command-line text editor with Windows! This was followed up in a Windows blog post. We are introducing a ...

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Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that first appeared in MS-DOS 5.0 back in 1991. The new open source tool, built ...

At its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft open sourced a number of apps and tools, including a new command-line text editor for Windows called Edit. Open source software may not earn the company direct ...

In brief: Notepad didn't change much in the first few decades following its debut in 1983. However, Microsoft has added several significant features to the cleartext editor in the years since Windows ...