Microsoft has developed a new open source text editor for Windows: edit.exe. This news alone and the claim that the program is based on Visual Studio Code has caused quite a stir online. David Göhler ...

According to Microsoft, the decision to open source GitHub Copilot Chat stems from a growing demand for transparency in how AI-assisted developer tools work -- particularly around prompt engineering, ...

Microsoft's open source editor Edit for the command prompt has been updated to version 1.2.0. The developers have made improvements. On the weekend, Microsoft's programmers released a new version of ...

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VS Code) team has reached a key milestone in its vision to transform VS Code into an open‑source AI editor. On 30 June 2025, the team announced that the GitHub Copilot ...