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Microsoft open-sources MS-DOS 1.0, offering a rare look at PC history

This is a rare look at the tech giant's first operating system ...

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

Want a blast from the past? Microsoft just open-sourced its very first operating system, offering a rare insight into the ...

Microsoft open-sources 86-DOS 1.00, the ancestor of Windows

The source code for 86-DOS 1.00, the OS that eventually became MS-DOS and Windows, is now available on GitHub.
BizTech

What is MS-DOS: Computers Reshaped by Simple OS

As the forerunner to the graphical user interfaces in Microsoft’s Windows platform, MS-DOS helped set the stage for the company’s dominance in the PC software market. When MS-DOS was released in 1981, ...
Liliputing

Party like it’s 1994 with FreeDOS 1.3, open-source MS-DOS compatible operating system

FreeDOS is an open source operating system that allows you to run MS-DOS applications even though Microsoft stopped developing and supporting MS-DOS more than two decades ago. While FreeDOS has been ...
ZDNet

Helios: Another Microsoft operating system project to watch

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Neowin

A quick look back at the official announcement of Microsoft Windows 1.0 40 years ago today

The year was 1983. Microsoft was slowly becoming a well-known tech company in the PC space. Two years before, in 1981, Its MS-DOS operating system would be installed in the first IBM PC. It launched ...