As the forerunner to the graphical user interfaces in Microsoft’s Windows platform, MS-DOS helped set the stage for the company’s dominance in the PC software market. When MS-DOS was released in 1981, ...

Tony Smith puns it up, with “Kudos to QDOS”: On 27 July 1981, Microsoft gave the name MS-DOS to the…operating system it acquired on that day from Seattle Computer Products (SCP). … The company had ...

The reason Microsoft became so big comes down to the best deal ever made in the history of computing, between the fledgling software company co-founded by Bill Gates and the behemoth hardware giant ...

Without Microsoft, the world of modern computer technology would not be the same as we know it. Next year, Microsoft turns 50 years old, so it’s worth looking back at the megacorporation’s significant ...

In context: Back in 1980, Tim Paterson was creating a new operating system he called QDOS or Quick and Dirty Operating System. The system was later renamed 86-DOS, as it was being designed to run on ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Nostalgic for MS-DOS, anyone? How about 'early 90s-vintage Word? Microsoft on Tuesday "dusted off" the source code for early versions of the iconic MS-DOS operating system and ...

What comes to mind when you look back at the history of Windows? Is it the iconic logos, the ever-changing Start menus, or maybe the introduction of Live Tiles? The story of Microsoft’s flagship ...

This could be the tech world’s version of a conviction being overturned by new DNA evidence. A forensic analysis conducted for the latest issue of IEEE Spectrum magazine appears to have answered one ...

In the era of floppy disks and early operating systems like CP/M and MS-DOS, A: and B: were reserved for floppy disk drives, ...

What was Microsoft’s best Windows operating system of all time? If you’re like us, you have…opinions. Even if you’re not the type to parse through all of the little details that separated Windows 98 ...