Word for Windows was released in 1989, and within four years it was generating half the worldwide word processing market’s revenue. A museum has to work hard to acquire original code ...

The museum will make available the source code for MS DOS1.1 and 2.0 and Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a "to help future generations of technologists better understand the roots of personal ...

Thanks to the free and open-source software (FOSS) movement, there are alternatives that not only cost nothing but allow users to access the underlying code so they can make changes as needed.

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.

The code itself might also be the hastily updated MS-DOS 4.01, not the truly original release. It’s possible that some of these issues might be resolved, as Microsoft could simply release the ...

MS-DOS had just 300kB of source code and occupied as little as 12kB of memory. In 1981, MS-DOS was a key part of IBM's PC, and the success of the PC—and its clones—made Microsoft the industry ...

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 ...

The source code from MS DOS 1.1 and 2.0, as well as Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, is made public under a non-commercial license that forbids re-publication elsewhere on the Web.