To get the answer, just put a decimal point in the number "50"—my first Microsoft product was MS-DOS 5.0.

Even in 2025 there are still many applications for a simple Disk Operating System (DOS), whether this includes running legacy ...

A former Windows developer reveals why Windows was dragging around 30 MB of completely useless data for many years. The data ...

In honor of Microsoft's 50th anniversary, we've ranked the best Windows consumer operating systems Microsoft has ever shipped ...

But I wasn't using it. Instead, I, like virtually every office worker in the world, was using an IBM PC (or a clone) and ...

It still has excellent compatibility with MS-DOS software, including Windows 3.1 and earlier, and many of the built-in ...

FreeDOS creator and maintainer Jim Hall goes into more detail about the FreeDOS 1.4 changes here, and full release notes for ...

It’s a piece of common knowledge, that MS-DOS wasn’t capable of multitasking. For that, the Microsoft-based PC user would have to wait for the 80386, and usable versions of Windows.

Fifty years ago, on April 4, 1975, Bill Gates and the late Paul Allen founded Microsoft. A half century later, it’s one of ...

One of two hidden system files that made up Microsoft's MS-DOS. The other was IO.SYS. These two system files were loaded into memory when the computer was booted. They processed the instructions ...

The project was officially renamed, and the software was introduced to the public in 1983 under its new name, "Windows." It was envisioned as a graphical user interface (GUI) overlay for MS-DOS ...