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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, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @09:06PM
The story of WordPerfect for Windoze 95 is a vexing one.
It includes a lawsuit (which was decided, years later, in favor of the bad guys).
M$ (wanting to protect its position in the market for WinWord) gave the WordPerfect folks early versions of the Lose95 APIs and said "This is what we'll be using".
M$ purposely lied, having already changed the APIs for the release version of W95.
WordPerfect's product, of course, didn't work properly with that and their time-to-market suffered while they made it compatible.
Typical M$, screwing its "partner".
(M$ doesn't have partners--only competitors to eventually be steamrollered.)
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