Ten years after releasing the source code of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0, Microsoft is making yet another contribution to the world of open-source software preservation. Working in ...

Multitasking was scrapped in later versions to make way for GUI operating systems like Windows. Microsoft already released MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 in 2014, in cooperation with The Computer History Museum.

To be clear, the GitHub repository itself has been around for several years, and previously contained the source and binaries for MS-DOS v1.25 and v2.0 under the MIT license.

Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that ...

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license.

Although Microsoft's Open Source Program Office was unable to find the complete source code for MT-DOS in the Microsoft archives, they were able to find the source code for MS-DOS 4.0, which was ...

This isn't the first time Microsoft has released MS-DOS source code. Back in 2014, Microsoft open-sourced the MS-DOS source code for versions 1.25 and 2.0 via the Computer History Museum.

Commemorating Microsoft’s 50th anniversary, Bill Gates provides a first-hand account of the company’s origin story. The post gains extra charm from an interactive design that transforms the text into ...

In “Source Code,” Bill Gates’s chronicle of his early years, we are treated to an unexpectedly revealing account of the swirl of factors leading to the birth of Microsoft and the ascent of ...

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 ...

Microsoft has once again made the source code of a version of its ancient MS-DOS operating system available for download.