The rationale for this release was because former Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie came across beta binaries on DOS floppy disks in his collection. The release stemmed from a correspondence with British ...

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Hyde corresponded with Microsoft Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie, who found the dusty code in his collection of floppy disks. Ozzie's disks, which appear to date back to 1984, contain unreleased ...

That MT-DOS code comes from former Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie, who recently found some floppy disks with the code while corresponding with English researcher Connor “Starfrost” Hyde, who is ...

Originally, an English researcher named Connor "Starfrost" Hyde wanted to talk to former Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie, who was working for Lotus at the time, about software from his collection ...

Microsoft decided to open source MS-DOS 4 after a young English researcher (Connor "Starfrost" Hyde) got in touch with Ray Ozzie. The company's former Chief Technical Officer had some unreleased ...

A young English researcher named Connor “Starfrost” Hyde recently corresponded with former Microsoft Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie about some of the software in his collection. Amongst the ...

The decision to open source MS-DOS 4.00 stems from recent correspondence between a researcher named Connor “Starfrost” Hyde and former Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie. While exploring Ozzie’s collection of ...

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In its blog post about open-sourcing MS-DOS 4.00, Microsoft says this release was precipitated largely thanks to correspondence between former Microsoft Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie and a ...

While at Microsoft, Ballmer hired some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, like Steven Sinofksy, who headed Windows; J ...