Microsoft arguably built its business on MS-DOS, and on Tuesday the software giant and the Mountain View, CA-based Computer History Museum took the unprecedented step of publishing the source code for ...

30 years ago today, Microsoft bought the rights to the Quick and Dirty OS, re-branded it as MS-DOS, struck a deal with IBM, and made history. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

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 ...

Microsoft has dusted off the source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows—some of the most popular and widely used software of the 80s—making it freely available to download from the the Computer ...

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 ...

Microsoft took a few people by surprise earlier this week by releasing the source code for its old MS-DOS and Word for Windows software. The source codes for both programs are now available to the ...

Iain Thomson eyes the future: Retro-computing fans got a treat…when Microsoft donated the source code of MS DOS 1.1 and 2 to the…CHM, along with the first version of Word for Windows. … The code isn’t ...

Microsoft has the most popular operating system in the world, granted a lot of people hate it. If you look back at the history of the computer world, Microsoft has been around almost as long as the PC ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

Hackers rejoice. Microsoft has just released the source code for three of its most famous operating systems. Unfortunately for cyber thieves the operating systems are MS-DOS 1.1, 2.0 and Windows 1.1a.