Did you know that many of the tools you use every day have free, open-source alternatives that are just as good as—or even better than—their expensive commercial counterparts? Open-source software is ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...