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Microsoft unveiled MAI-Code-1-Flash, its first in-house model for turning written ...

Developers who rely on GitHub Copilot inside Visual Studio Code now have a new option built entirely by Microsoft. The ...

Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”

Several times in the last couple of decades, Microsoft has released source code for the original MS-DOS operating system that kicked off its decades-long dominance of consumer PCs. This week, the ...

Microsoft releases earliest known DOS source code

DOS, Microsoft is releasing the earliest known source code listings – transcribed from yellowed continuous printouts.
Ars Technica

Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...
CRN

Microsoft Depends On Shared Source, Dips Toe In Open-Source Waters

Jason Matusow, director of the Shared Source Initiative, said Microsoft would continue to add to the 20 products that it currently makes available for source-code inspection. Matusow was a session ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code Goes Transparent as Open-Source AI Editor

According to Microsoft, the decision to open source GitHub Copilot Chat stems from a growing demand for transparency in how AI-assisted developer tools work -- particularly around prompt engineering, ...