History of Microsoft: Company timeline & facts

For more than 50 years, Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) has been one of the world’s most influential companies, now a titan in software (Microsoft 365), cloud computing (Microsoft Azure), and AI ...
PC World

Microsoft publishes MS-DOS, Word for Windows source code

Microsoft arguably built its business on MS-DOS, and on Tuesday the software giant and the Mountain View, CA-based Computer History Museum took the unprecedented step of publishing the source code for ...
BizTech

What is MS-DOS: Computers Reshaped by Simple OS

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, ...
Ars Technica

The oldest-known version of MS-DOS’s predecessor has been discovered and uploaded

Microsoft’s MS-DOS (and its IBM-branded counterpart, PC DOS) eventually became software juggernauts, powering the vast majority of PCs throughout the ’80s and serving as the underpinnings of Windows ...
Ars Technica

Restart computer directly from MS-DOS

<I>/EDIT: Sorry all for three new topics, I posted in less than 30 mins, but I am on dial-up, and I usually write posts and mails, when not connected, and then when I on-line (for an hour or so), I ...
Computerworld

Booting in MS-DOS

Reader Steve P. sends in this question: “I’m running Windows 2000 and want to upgrade my system BIOS. The instructions say to create a bootable disk with the format a:/s command. However, the /s doesn ...
Popular Science

This long-lost, earliest MS-DOS precursor was discovered in a floppy disk collection

Before Microsoft released MS-DOS, there was 86-DOS. Now version 0.1 is online thanks to a hobbyist’s archival work. By Andrew Paul Published Jan 5, 2024 2:13 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...
TechSpot

Check out MS-DOS running natively on modern hardware, showcasing the incredible backward compatibility of x86

In brief: A YouTuber has demonstrated the ability to run the venerable MS-DOS operating system and classic games directly on modern computer hardware without any emulation. This blast from the past ...
CCM

Complete list of MS-DOS commands

You will find the complete list of MS-DOS commands below. However, MS-DOS commands are not the same as Windows command line commands or Powershell commands. MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) is ...
Computerworld

Creating an MS-DOS Boot Disk

I recently said that an MS-DOS boot disk couldn’t be created in Windows 2000. As several readers pointed out, this isn’t quite true. An MS-DOS boot disk can be created using files located on the ...
Christian Science Monitor

MS-DOS computer viruses live on in the Internet Archive’s Malware Museum

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...