Microsoft's new lightweight text editor is coming to Windows 11; Microsoft used an Xbox game to train its new generative AI tools; Microsoft silently adds spellchecking, ...

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 ...

Windows Latest took a closer look at a preview version of Edit, and sure enough it’s a svelte and compact text editor only 230KB in size. Microsoft You open Edit by typing edit in the Command ...

TL;DR: Microsoft is ushering in a lightweight text editor for Windows 11 called Edit, which it says pays homage to the classic MS-DOS Editor experience, but with a suitably modern interface.

Edit is now available on GitHub for anyone to download, and Microsoft says it will soon be included by default in Windows 11 as the primary text editor for command-line environments such as ...

Windows 11 doesn't currently ship with a CLI text editor, but Microsoft has opened a thread on GitHub discussing the idea of adding one in. And it wants your feedback.

Aside from ease of use, Microsoft's main reason for creating the new version of Edit stems from a peculiar gap in modern Windows. "What motivated us to build Edit was the need for a default CLI ...

Notepad, Microsoft's basic text editing app introduced in 1983, also gets an AI-powered feature dubbed "Rewrite" (previously known as CoWriter) that automatically rewrites content using generative AI.