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 ...

Do you still long to run WordPerfect 5.1, Lotus 1-2-3 4, or Doom on DOS? Well, if you do, there's a new way to revisit the PC world of the 1980s: The newly open-sourced PC-MOS/386 v501. PC-MOS, for ...

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.

Microsoft has once again made the source code of a version of its ancient MS-DOS operating system available for download. Originally, an English researcher named Connor "Starfrost" Hyde wanted to talk ...

How to play some of your favorite games from the 1980s and 1990s for free. Users can now play The Oregon Trail Deluxe by MECC on the Internet Archive. The Oregon Trail Deluxe is one of over 2,000 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Before Windows, there was MS-DOS—that’s the Microsoft Disk ...

Microsoft has been in the computer software realm just about, as long as computers have been on the consumer market. Back in the early days of computing, before Windows, Microsoft had an operating ...

Ever felt like getting back to the era when we used to play games on our computer system? Back in the eighties and nineties, when there were no PlayStations and gaming consoles around, the only ...

On Tuesday, software giant Microsoft announced that it had published the source code for MS-DOS 1.1 and 2.0 along with Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, making it available to the public with the help ...

If you trying to install a 16 bit DOS application on Windows 32 bit PC then you may encounter an error – The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and ...

A decade after releasing the source code for MS-DOS 1.1 and MS-DOS 2.0, Microsoft has open sourced a (slightly) more recent operating system: MS-DOS 4.0. First released in 1988, you can now download ...