If ever source code can be said to have helped launch an empire, the code behind the Apple II DOS would qualify. And now it's available to everyone. Last spring, CNET was first to report on the ...

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 has just released the source code for one of its operating systems… but don’t worry. Hell hasn’t frozen over. It’s just that a lot of time has passed and the software isn’t really all that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Modern processors come with all kinds of power management features, which you don’t typically notice as a user until you start a heavy program and hear the CPU fan spin up. Back in the early 1990s ...

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 ...

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 ...