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Why Windows 11 still won’t let you name a file CON, and Microsoft’s explanation goes back to MS-DOS

Windows 11 still won't let you name a file CON or NUL. Raymond Chen traces it to DOS 1.0, and our 26H2 test found NUL.txt now ...
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Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. PC-DOS 1.00 would lead to Microsoft becoming computing's top dog Microsoft continues to embrace open source. The source code and annotations ...
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Microsoft open-sources MS-DOS 1.0, offering a rare look at PC history

Patrick O'Rourke is XDA's News Editor and Entertainment Segment Lead. Previously, he was Pocket-lint's Editor-in-Chief, the Editor-in-Chief of Canadian tech publication MobileSyrup, and earlier in his ...
GeekWire

Inside the Windows 1.0 reunion: How a scrappy team shipped the product that changed everything, eventually

Members of the Windows 1.0 team at their 40-year reunion this week. L-R, kneeling/sitting: Joe Barello, Ed Mills, Tandy Trower, Mark Cliggett, Steve Ballmer (holding a Windows 1.0 screenshot) and Don ...

The Windows 1.0 lesson that traveled to Sea

Gabe Newell worked under Bill Gates developing the initial version of Windows at Microsoft in his early years. Forty years ...
ZDNet

Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 – and it’s so much more than the code

Before “Micro Soft” became Microsoft, Bill Gates wrote BASIC interpreters. Microsoft’s first shipping operating system was a Unix distro called Xenix. Then, in 1980, Microsoft got its shot at the big ...