It's hard not to see Edit as a replacement for Notepad, the generally utilitarian interface that could be used for editing all sorts of things. Users also have access to Windows Subsystem for Linux, which allows access to text editors like vim — which can also be run within Windows.
At Microsoft's own Build conference, the focus is obviously on developers, and providing them tools to ensure that Microsoft's own applications, platforms, and services win out. Many of those include AI, of course. But others are just more fundamental tweaks to the familiar Windows platform.
Notepad, of course, is already a Windows application. But what appears to have drawn Microsoft's attention is that it's not natively integrated into the tools developers are already using.
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