Microsoft earlier today, in collaboration with IBM, announced that it is open-sourcing the MS-DOS 4.00 source code. The company has explained what was special about it and how to run it.
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The earliest known version of 86-DOS, which is basically the great grandfather of Microsoft DOS has arrived on the internet, thanks to a tech enthusiast who has uploaded the version to the Archive.
Long before Windows, and even before MS-DOS, Microsoft sold a Unix-based operating system it called Xenix in 1980. It was the first OS made by the company, but it eventually sold it off in 1987.
In 1983, Microsoft shipped the first version of what would become known as Microsoft Word, although there is some confusion as to the exact date the word processor program was launched.
Rufus, a popular third-party tool for creating bootable USB drives, has been updated to version 4.1. The latest release brings back some previously missing features and improves compatibility.
Last week, Twitter became a mobile gaming hub for over 2000 MS-DOS games. Today, it looks like Twitter has put the kibosh on gaming within tweets because it violates their terms of service.
Microsoft has today launched MS-DOS Mobile, a stunning new DOS-based platform designed especially for mobile phones, which aims to take productivity back to where it all started with a simple OS.
Microsoft's release of the source code to MS DOS 1.1 and 2.0 and Word for Windows 1.1a this week has revealed that its programmers hid some interesting text jokes inside the software.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has a history of getting excited when on stage during a keynote or being filmed for a TV commercial. We look back at just some of his more "colorful" moments.
Check out Trivia Tuesday's awesome infographic pedigree of Microsoft operating systems, from MS-DOS and OS/2 all the way up to Windows 8, and everything in between. Yes, even Zune.
A new report from a forensic computing researcher claims that he has found no evidence that Microsoft's MS-DOS OS contains code copied from another OS, CP/M.
25 years ago today, IBM and Microsoft announced OS/2, the PC operating system that was designed to replace DOS but failed to do so, thanks mostly to Microsoft's efforts to improve Windows.
IBM reproduces the original press release from August 12, 1981 that officially announced the launch of the IBM personal computer.
Microsoft celebrates the 30th anniversary of the IBM PC a couple of days early with an article that looks ahead to the future of the PC and Microsoft's Windows operating system.
Microsoft's operating system business launched 30 years ago today with MS-DOS ... kind of. As The Register reports, on July 27, 1981 Microsoft bought the full rights to QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System), the...
