Four years after working with the Computer History Museum to release the source code for MS-DOS, Microsoft is “re-open-sourcing” its command line operating system from the ’80s. This time the company ...

In this age of touchscreen and voice command interfaces, it's sometimes hard to believe that less than 40 years ago, we just used keyboards to interact with our personal computers. Today, Microsoft ...

Ever wonder what made MS-DOS tick? Soon, interested geeks will be able to root around inside the original source code for MS-DOS 1.1 and 2.0, as well as Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1, as a part of a ...

Microsoft believes the children are our future, and to prove it, it's teamed up with the Computer History Museum to make source code available for two groundbreaking programs: MS-DOS and Word for ...

Microsoft, in conjunction with the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, has released the source code for MS-DOS 1.1, MS-DOS 2.0, and Word for Windows 1.1a. These programs are probably the three ...

Source code for Microsoft's MS-DOS and Word for Windows programs is now publicly available via the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. Microsoft donated the code of MS-DOS versions 1.1 ...

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Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) releases old source code. MS-DOS and Word For Windows are downloadable (but don’t call them ‘open’). The Computer History Museum (CHM) hosts the files for us, calling them ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Nostalgic for MS-DOS, anyone? How about 'early 90s-vintage Word? Microsoft on Tuesday "dusted off" the source code for early versions of the iconic MS-DOS operating system and ...

In recognition of their historical importance and commercial irrelevance, Microsoft has given the source code to MS-DOS 1.1 and 2.0 and Word for Windows 1.1a to the Computer History Museum (CHM) in ...