but just yesterday the Redmond software giant decided to grace us with the source code for MS-DOS v4.0. To be clear, the GitHub repository itself has been around for several years, and previously ...

This announcement coincides with the ten year anniversary of Microsoft donating the source code for MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 to the Computer History Museum and then releasing the source code to the ...

It was envisioned as a graphical user interface (GUI) overlay for MS-DOS, which ran on IBM PCs ... an .exe that took over the screen of DOS. Windows 1.0 was released in November 1985, marking ...

Recently, we have been covering quite a lot of retro stuff for Windows ... of MS-DOS which supported preemptive multitasking for compatible applications. This version was called MS-DOS 4.0 and ...

Wikipedia Windows 1.0 was the necessary first step ... memory segments while maintaining backwards compatibility with MS-DOS, using what former Windows president Steven Sinofsky called “hacks ...

Microsoft is now 50 years old and after 50 years it's seen some major changes. Here are some of its biggest milestones and ...

The first step is getting DOS 6.22, the most recent version released ... which is a Mastodon client specifically built for MS-DOS by [SuperIlu]. There are pre-compiled packages available on ...

Former Lakeside School students Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Micro-Soft, a portmanteau of microcomputer and software, in Albuquerque, N.M.

With MS-DOS 2.0, Microsoft replaced "the traditional ... Mac made "the PC's display look like a relic from the past." Windows 1.0 Desktop (Credit: Microsoft/PCMag) Windows "puts a new face on ...

Selecting milestones and millstones for the Redmond-based biz is tricky since there are so many. The operating systems would have to take prominence, as well as the productivity applications. Also ...