On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 8:37 AM Michael C Robinson <mich...@robinson-west.com> wrote: > > Is it possible to get the source code to Windows 9x and ME since > Microsoft isn't supporting it anymore? > One would want to get the source code and then open source it of > course. Even Windows 3.1 and Windows 3.11 is closed source. Surely, > Microsoft could release pre 9x Windows? It wouldn't hurt Microsoft at > all since Windows > is squarely NT based now where many modern systems won't even support > DOS let alone DOS based Windows. I realize it would probably be very > expensive to get Microsoft to cough up the source code, but has anyone > even looked into this? >
Short version: No. As far as I know, Microsoft has not released the source code to Windows 95/98 or Windows ME. However, I know that Microsoft *has* released the source code to Windows Calculator, and Windows Winfile (file manager). These are officially released on Github: https://github.com/microsoft/winfile https://github.com/microsoft/calculator I know that's not what you were asking for, but that's all I know about. They have a bunch of other things opened up at the official Microsoft account at Github: https://github.com/microsoft ** A note for follow-up discussion: please do not give links to any unofficial source code (i.e. "code leaks") Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
