Here it is. The software weather forecast for the next 12 months straight from Dr. DOS himself, Bill Gates, chairman and chief executive officer of the nation`s largest PC software maker, Microsoft… ...

There was nothing particularly exciting about DOS or Microsoft, at least back then. It was pervasive but not iconic. If I'm being honest, I didn't even know who ran the company, but when someone ...

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 ...

While based on a command line interface, MS-DOS, or the Microsoft Disk Operating System, which began shipping on IBM PCs in 1981, provided a foundation for the software giant’s trademark Windows ...

Microsoft, in conjunction with the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, has released the source code for MS-DOS 1.1, MS-DOS 2.0, and Word for Windows 1.1a. These programs are probably the ...

It’s that time again folks, the time of the week when we gather around to poke at four Microsoft stories that were big hitters in the past seven days. Instead of being serious this time around ...

Microsoft has confirmed through a press release that it has been the target of a denial-of-service attack, which has resulted in customers having problems accessing several of its sites. However ...

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.

Microsoft’s main Web site was unreachable for almost two hours on Friday as the Web server it is hosted on failed following a DOS (denial of service) attack, the company said Friday. “I can ...

Microsoft Corp.'s main Web site was inaccessible for two hours Thursday evening, the victim of an Internet-borne DoS (denial of service) attack, the company said. The company is cooperating with ...