Microsoft forced to release code, Python 2.3 released and the game Manhunt is withdrawn from UK stores. All on today’s On This Day from TestHuddle.
1998 – Microsoft forced to reveal its secrets
As part of a ongoing litigious trail, A Federal judge orders orders Microsoft to hand over the source code for Windows ‘95 and other operating systems related to a pending lawsuit filed by Caldera, a small software company based in Utah that owned the right to DR-DOS, a relation of the MS-DOS operating system that Microsoft had purchased in the early 1980’s. The case would continue until it was settled in January 2000. Read more on the story here
2003 – Python 2.3 released
On this day in 2003, version 2.3 of the Python programming language is released.
2004 – Manhunt Withdrawn
After much furore and concern, the video game Manhunt is voluntarily withdrawn by stores in the U.K.
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