At its core, VS Code is built on an open source project called Code OSS, published under the permissive MIT license.

For too long, I, like many developers, believed that an over-engineered IDE was a necessity for professional coding. However, ...

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 ...

Subtitle Edit is an open-source subtitle editor that is available for free and uses AI to automatically transcribe and create subtitles for videos, and can also be edited or translated directly, so I ...

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 ...