SAN FRANCISCO — Nostalgic for MS-DOS, anyone? How about 'early 90s-vintage Word? Microsoft on Tuesday "dusted off" the source code for early versions of the iconic MS-DOS operating system and ...

Microsoft announced today that it’s partnering with the Computer History Museum to make the source code for early versions of MS-DOS and Word for Windows available to the public for the first time.

Computers normally come stocked with rudimentary word ... open-source software (FOSS) movement, there are alternatives that not only cost nothing but allow users to access the underlying code ...

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 ...

This source code is then compiled into a sleek ... Still, around one in ten accepted submissions are in LaTeX format; these are converted to Word before being passed to copy-editors, he says.

Both MS-DOS and Word for Windows are available for download via this page on the Computer History Museum’s site. The source code from MS DOS 1.1 and 2.0, as well as Microsoft Word for Windows 1 ...

Working with the Computer History Museum, Microsoft is making the source code for MS DOS 1.1 and 2.0 and Word for Windows 1.1a available for non-commercial use. Microsoft says the goal is to ...