What's with Microsoft Notepad?

Why is microsoft notepad offered with every Microsoft OS? What can you do with it that you can't do with edit.exe? Has anyone here even used it before?

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It's a graphical window based text editor, as opposed to edit.exe, which has its roots in the old DOS days, and has stuck around as the standard Windows OS text editor, when booting in Safe mode or to a command prompt.

Notepad isn't a terrible program, it's good at what it is made for - small and quick text files. Don't try to open up multi-megabyte files, or use it as an editor for office documents or source code. It's fine for simple note taking, or creating a text file that will be able to opened up across multiple operating systems, with multiple types of programs.

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the first thing I do when I install windoze after a reformat is replace notepad exe with a freeware alternative. these days I use notepad++. You are showing your age referring to edit.exe! personally I wouldn't use it in windoze but it seems to me its actually a better text editor then notepad because it doesn't have a rediculously small size limit! I have _no idea_ why microsoft continued with notepad as its a singularly inept application. I haven't downgraded to vista yet and wonder if they included it in that or whether they got wise and finally added a decent text editor. Anyone know?
Lots of web developers use it for hand coding. A good thing about it is that you don't have to worry about any formatting messing up the code. It's also good for stripping out default formatting from text received in a Word document. I see on the internet that EDIT is acquired by download. I guess it's just easier for people to use what they already have on their computer.