Before Windows, there was MS-DOS—that’s the Microsoft Disk Operating System, if you’re unfamiliar—a text-based, command-line interface operating system that was the way into managing files ...

It hasn't always been smooth sailing for Microsoft, but there are clear moments in the company's history that proved to be ...

When I returned to PCMag in 2000, Apple was just starting to claw its way back to relevance, and Microsoft was ubiquitous. Everyone ran Windows, everyone used the Office suite, many used Microsoft's ...

At the end of the day, Microsoft doesn’t need to keep creating entirely new versions of Windows - it does so because outside ...

This means that they can, in theory at least, still run MS-DOS. The venerable Microsoft 16-bit OS may now be long discontinued, but there is still enough need for DOS that the open-source FreeDOS ...

The first step is getting DOS 6.22, the most recent version released ... At the time of its release there were many networking options so the operating system didn’t include these tools by ...

Microsoft is celebrating its 50-year anniversary today during a special event at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington. The software maker will unveil new Copilot features, and we’re ...

And while driven by a Microsoft operating system — MS-DOS, to be specific — computers didn’t have the kinds of creature comforts we might expect now. But one thing that hasn’t changed between then and ...

This name reflected its primary purpose as a graphical interface manager designed to enhance the usability of the MS-DOS operating system. However, marketers at Microsoft recognized that the name ...