Microsoft Editor, the quietly helpful assistive technology that suggests edits in Word, Microsoft Edge, and elsewhere, has improved yet again. It now uses an AI-driven technology called Context IQ to ...

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. It's ...

The coherency and quality of your writing can take a beating and most likely frustrate readers when complex or abstract words are used unnecessarily. Such an arrangement of words can never convey the ...

It’s not often that a new Microsoft product attracts attention from Mac and Linux users, especially not a command-line tool. But the company’s Edit app targets the ever-popular text editor market, ...

In March, Microsoft announced Microsoft Editor to help users with grammar and spellings in Office apps and on the web. Soon after the initial announcement, the company made the extension available for ...

For many millions of students and professionals, Microsoft Word's red squiggly underlines for spelling mistakes are essentially an icon of modern computing. Well, those squigglies aren't going ...

"Your essential text editor, elevated," says Microsoft when you open one of the world's once simplest text editors, Notepad, ...

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