Microsoft continues to make some of the earliest chapters of its operating system history open-source and freely available. Earlier this week, it announced that Tim Paterson's DOS listings, containing ...

Microsoft on Tuesday released the earliest known DOS source code materials found to date to mark the 45th anniversary of 86-DOS 1.00. The new software preservation effort announced on the Microsoft ...

Following on from the earlier collaboration with the Computer History Museum to release the source code for MS-DOS roughly 4 years ago. Microsoft has today announced the availability of the MS-DOS ...

A decade after releasing the source code for MS-DOS 1.1 and MS-DOS 2.0, Microsoft has open sourced a (slightly) more recent operating system: MS-DOS 4.0. First released in 1988, you can now download ...

I always thought it stood for Disk Operating System. I was fucking around with it back in the early 80's after I got out of the Navy, and had taken some BASIC courses. I wrote a program to find out ...

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 ...

TL;DR: Microsoft will likely never release the original source code of Windows into the wild, but the company is clearly interested in sharing important episodes of its software development history.

Facepalm: Microsoft deserves kudos for open-sourcing the MS-DOS 4.00 source code, shedding light on an important milestone in computing history. But the tech giant has bungled the release in a way ...

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 ...