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Microsoft open sourced MS-DOS & Office Word

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Today Microsoft has released the source code of the softwares MS DOS 1.1 & 2.0 & Word for Windows 1.0 that marked the beginning of the successes for the software giant. Microsoft's managing director of research department, Roy Levin wrote in a blog post: "... to help future generations of technologists better understand the roots of personal computing.".

Generating Microsoft Visual Studio Project using CMake

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Compiling C/C++ libraries with CMake for generating Visual Studio projects is a pain. Alot of times compiling with CMake goes wrong or doesn't work at all. The documentation for compilation is not adequate & doesn't cover most of the scenario's for different compiler options, which CMake uses to generate the project from the source code.