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The Verge is reporting:
Microsoft is releasing the source code for its original Windows File Manager from nearly 28 years ago. While it's a relic from the past, you can still compile the source code Microsoft has released and run the app on Windows 10 today.
The source code is available on GitHub, and is maintained by Microsoft veteran Craig Wittenberg under the MIT license. Wittenberg copied the File Manager code from Windows NT 4 back in 2007, and has been maintaining it before open sourcing it recently. It's a testament to the backward compatibility of Windows itself, especially that this was originally included in Windows more than 20 years ago.
A port of Microsoft's File Manger made its first appearance in OS/2 1.1 and then became the primary file manager in Windows 3.0.
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Tuesday April 10 2018, @04:40PM (1 child)
I'll go ahead and ask here - a while back someone mentioned that around 1989 or so, Microsoft made a pre-release version of Program Manager and File Manager for Windows 2 available on the Microsoft BBS. I don't know if this is true or not, but does anyone know anything more about that? I have never seen a copy of that anywhere on the Internet.
Of course, with the source perhaps it could be ported back to Windows 2 or even Windows 1. :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 11 2018, @07:05AM
Microsoft software only gets bigger, never smaller. And as I remember it both Windows 1.0 and 2.0 had memory manager problems, which were only resolved with EMM386 in Windows 3.x and later versions of MS-DOS.