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Lilbits: Toshiba ends notebook business, Snapdragon chip vulnerability, and jailbreaker infighting

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Toshiba was one of the first companies to release a portable computer that could reasonably be called a laptop. But that was 35 years ago. The company formally exited the personal computer space a few years ago when Toshiba sold its laptop business to Sharp, which formed a new subsidiary called Dynabook. But Toshiba still […]

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Microsoft’s latest open source product is… Windows Calculator

by Brad Linder 8 Comments on Microsoft’s latest open source product is… Windows Calculator

Microsoft probably isn’t the first company that comes to mind when you think of open source software. But in recent years the company has become a major player in the space. The Windows Subsystem for Linux lets you run some Linux software in Windows 10. Microsoft has released the source code for some old products […]

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Microsoft releases MS-DOS source code to GitHub

by Brad Linder 4 Comments on Microsoft releases MS-DOS source code to GitHub

Four years after working with the Computer History Museum to release the source code for MS-DOS, Microsoft is “re-open-sourcing” its command line operating system from the ’80s. This time the company is making the source code for MS-DOS 1.25 and MS-DOS 2.0 available through GitHub. The company says the files are the same, but posting […]