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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @08:46PM (1 child)
What killed me about Windoze was the way they allowed not-DOS-compatible characters in filenames--but when you tried to do a file search that included one of those, the damned thing would bomb.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 3, Touché) by aristarchus on Tuesday April 10 2018, @09:17PM
Another case of Micro$oft being case insensitive. If you cannot grok the glyph, you should not grep the tree.