Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen was never one to seek publicity. But in the end, after his untimely death on Monday, the best way that one can realise his importance to Microsoft was the way he was described in The New York Times in 1982.
Microsoft released the source code for MS-DOS v1.25 and v2.0 on GitHub at the beginning of this month.
Microsoft is now 40 years old but its habits have not changed much. Especially when it comes to new ideas. Or, one should perhaps say its implementation of what are new ideas for itself, but old ones to others.
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