Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that ...

MS-DOS 6.0 (March 1993) Developed by Microsoft and had disk utilities and double space disk compression features. PC DOS 6.1 (June 1993) Developed by IBM and was its first release after the end of ...

Microsoft charged the same $149 for a retail copy of Windows 3.1. Windows 98 (1998) It’s not fair to call Windows 98 a service pack for Windows 95, but this 1998 consumer operating system was ...

It was called the Microsoft Disk Operating System — MS-DOS, for short. A manual required to operate MS DOS, on display at a vintage computer festival in Seattle. Monica Nickelsburg hide caption ...

It was called the Microsoft Disk Operating System — MS-DOS, for short. In a shrewd business move, Gates and Allen made sure they could license MS-DOS to any computer manufacturer, not just IBM.

My first Microsoft product was extended color basic on the TRS-80 Color Computer but I loved MS-DOS. I've thought about setting up an old box to run it just for nostalgia's sake.

Microsoft's ability to recognize the "next big thing" has allowed sales – and its share price – to grow exponentially over the years. Kiplinger Save up to 74% ...

Back in the DOS era, we preferred DR-DOS – or Novell DOS as it was later known – to the "real thing" from Microsoft. Sadly, Caldera only released the source for a few core tools. Now, SvarDOS ...

This «black screen» was developed for the IBM PC, and it was based on 86-DOS, which Microsoft acquired from Seattle Computer Products. MS-DOS had a text-based interface and operated via the command ...

On this day in 1985, Microsoft unveiled its leap into the graphical user interface world with Windows 1.0, a piece of software that would change the personal computing world forever. Well, almost. As ...