Microsoft earlier today, in collaboration with IBM, announced that it is open-sourcing the MS-DOS 4.00 source code. The company has explained what was special about it and how to run it.
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During the revelation of Intel's 12th Gen CPUs, Microsoft claimed that users would see the true benefit of the hybrid CPUs on Windows 11. However, the kernel has revealed why that hasn't happened.
Microsoft has been working on Windows 11 since 2020 or probably even earlier. This month, the first Windows 10 build, which would eventually become what we have known as Windows 11 21H2, leaked.
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Microsoft had warned about a kernel patch that could break something on the system. However, two months since, it has pushed that update enabling it by default via the latest Patch Tuesday.
Microsoft has cautioned about a bug fix it released with Patch Tuesday. The fix resolves a kernel issue in Windows but Microsoft has disabled it by default as it can potentially break something.
Last month, Microsoft promised that the Windows kernel was about to get Rust-y, and the change would happen within months if not weeks. Microsoft has kept its word as Rust has indeed arrived.
Microsoft has been working on integrating Rust into Windows for a while. A senior exec David Weston recently confirmed that Rust-based code will soon be booting inside Windows kernel.
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Small bits of details regarding Microsoft's internal kernel compilation and development of Windows 11 23H2, the next major feature update codenamed Sun Valley 3 (SV3), have leaked.
