Re: [libreoffice-users] Microsoft Revisits the '80s With MS-DOS, Word for Windows Source Code,

Caution: Simply viewing this code _could_ pollute the products of the open source movement. As I 
understand their action, MS is not releasing this code to the Public Domain.


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Jim

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I do not know if this would be of any use to TDF/LO, or any of the users 
of this list, but I thought this was something that might be interesting 
reading and a "first" for Microsoft.

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http://www.eweek.com/pc-hardware/microsoft-revisits-the-80s-with-ms-dos-word-for-windows-source-code.html



[quoting part of the article]
Microsoft Revisits the '80s With MS-DOS, Word for Windows Source Code


By Pedro Hernandez  |  Posted 2014-03-26 Email this article Email Print 
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In a blast from the past, the software giant releases the source code to 
some of the products that were most instrumental to its success.
Decades before Windows 8.1 and Office 365 hit the market, MS-DOS and 
Word for Windows graced the hulking, low-resolution CRT monitors of 
'80s-era PC users. Now, Microsoft is finally letting the public peek 
into the code that made those two early software offerings tick and 
helped set the stage for one of the IT industry's biggest success stories.

"On Tuesday, we dusted off the source code for early versions of MS-DOS 
and Word for Windows," said Roy Levin, distinguished engineer and 
managing director of Microsoft Research, in a March 25 statement. 
Working with the Computer History Museum, "we are making this code 
available to the public for the first time," he announced.

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