I learned the ins and outs of Microsoft's dominant character-based OS, and wrote about it and the applications that ran on it, like WordPerfect, Textra, Lotus 1-2-3, and even MS Word on DOS.

Microsoft's version of MS-DOS 4.0 was originally released back in 1986 after a joint development with IBM for portions of the code, and a somewhat difficult relationship between the two at the ...

If you’ve used MS-DOS before then you’ll be right at home right away—if you haven’t, you’ll need to brush up on the commands (we’ve already mentioned a couple of them).

In the future, Microsoft suggests, you may be playing AI. No, not on the battlefield, but on games that actually use AI to simulate the entire game itself. As a first step, Microsoft has developed ...