Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code

Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code ...

Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”

For students of early PC history, this isn’t even the first piece of 86-DOS history that has been newly rediscovered this decade. Just two years ago, the earliest known version of 86-DOS was ...

Microsoft releases earliest known DOS source code

DOS, Microsoft is releasing the earliest known source code listings – transcribed from yellowed continuous printouts.
CRN

Microsoft Depends On Shared Source, Dips Toe In Open-Source Waters

Jason Matusow, director of the Shared Source Initiative, said Microsoft would continue to add to the 20 products that it currently makes available for source-code inspection. Matusow was a session ...
Neowin

Microsoft open sources GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code

Microsoft has decided to open source its GitHub Copilot tool in Visual Studio Code. It has also shared some exciting developments. On the opening day of its BUILD 2025 conference, Microsoft has ...
ITWire

Microsoft source code open to DoD changes

Microsoft will have to make changes in its source code if called upon to do so by the US Department of Defence to serve its objectives, according to a new US$927 million contract signed by the two ...
CSO Online

Microsoft releases open-source tools to operationalize AI agent safety

Rampart turns red-team findings into repeatable tests; Clarity documents and validates agent design assumptions before code ...
AOL

Bill Gates Has Published the Original Microsoft Source Code

Bill Gates holds a printout of early Microsoft source code. Sharing a photo of himself holding a huge pile of paper showing the code, Gates wrote that he was inspired by the January 1975 copy of ...