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When MS-DOS 5.0 was launched in 1991, one of its major innovations was the MS-DOS Editor, a classic text editor that quickly became popular with users. These days, it’s old news—yet fondly remembered.

It took a while, but Microsoft has finally delivered a long-awaited tool for developers, sysadmins, and terminal enthusiasts. Starting with the latest versions of Windows 11 (24H2 and 25H2), a new ...

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The 32-bit versions of Windows were shipped with MS-DOS Editor. Currently, there is no built-in CLI text editor in 64-bit Windows OS. This made Microsoft develop an Edit text editor for 64-bit Windows ...

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 ...

If you were a fan of the MS-DOS from the 90s, you will love Microsoft Edit – a fully open-source command-line interface (CLI) text editor. Microsoft Edit addresses a specific need for a default CLI ...

Following the deprecation of WordPad, Microsoft has been adding a lot of features to Notepad, which has led to criticism from users who prefer Notepad for its no-frills simplicity. If you’re such a ...

Editor's take: Back in the DOS days, real PC users wrote their textual tomes in the official MS-DOS Editor – I certainly did. These days, developers offer a confusing array of text editors, so ...

Edit on Windows is part of new improvements to the dev experience. Edit on Windows is part of new improvements to the dev experience. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering ...