MS-DOS Editor was included the 1991 release of MS-DOS 5.0 as the new default text editor, based on the QBasic IDE. Microsoft continued bundling it in all versions of MS-DOS after that.

MS-DOS Editor has all the features as Notepad, and more! With it you can also work with multiple text files, change background colors, change the color of the text, etc.

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.

Now, Microsoft has developed a new version of MS-DOS Editor called Edit, according to Ars Technica. Compared to the original, Edit offers a number of improvements, including support for Unicode.

VZ Editor, a popular text editor for MS-DOS, has been made open source 30 years after its last update, and the source code and image files have been made public on GitHub. GitHub - vcraftjp ...

Microsoft surprises MS-DOS fans with remake of ancient text editor that works on Linux JournalBot Jun 23, 2025 Jump to latest Follow Reply Jun 23, 2025 Replies: 267 ...

Microsoft has released the source code for early versions of MS-DOS and Word for Windows, making them available to the public through the Computer History Museum.

Anyone missing an integrated command line editor in 64-bit Windows will now find an open source tool that will soon be part of Windows 11.