Code for MS-DOS and MS-Word for Windows now released by Microsoft

Microsoft recently made a new announcement for the general public, in which it has released the source code for the earlier known versions of MS-DOS and MS Word for all.

When asked about this new happening at Microsoft, the Managing Director at the Research wing here said that the company has released the source code for the earlier version of MS-DOS and MS-Word for Windows. This has been made possible with the assistance of Computer History Museum, and this kind of code has been made available to the public for the first time ever.

Computer History Museum, meanwhile, will be making the source code for MS-DOS 1.1 and 2.0 and for Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1 accessible for public. This is to help the future generations of people interested about getting acknowledged about the roots of personal computing more closely.

The website also discussed details about how MS-DOS aka Microsoft disk operating system came to existence. This dates back to 1986, when IBM first approached Microsoft to create an operating system for its range of IBM PCs. This motivated Microsoft to go ahead and license 86-DOS for Seattle Computer products and later on modify the same to meet IBM’s requisites. The OEM was branded by IBM as PC-DOS and alternatively by Compaq and Zenith, where the same was released differently in a non-OEM version and was named as MS-DOS then.

Later on, Microsoft designed its first MS-DOS based version for the application Microsoft Word that was created in a way which can be used with a mouse. However, it was not before 1989, that the new Microsoft Word for Windows actually gained popularity and emerged as an important name in the application industry, across the globe.

In similar news, Microsoft made one more announcement where the company will now rebrand the Windows Azure by the new name of Microsoft Azure later in this week. The announcement was made on the second day of the Build Developer Conference held by Microsoft in San Francisco.

This move of rebranding its product by a new name will help in not just differentiating Azure from Windows, but will also help in highlighting Microsoft’s place as a cross platform software and service provider in the industry. This is actually which Satya Nadella, the new CEO at Microsoft talked about when he made his first remarks in the public after gaining position

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