Microsoft Breaks the Mold Windows XP dumps the operating system's DOS legacy to create a winner. By Larry Seltzer. October 1 ... and Microsoft ships MS-DOS, its first operating system.

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 ...

FreeDOS is an open source operating system that allows you to run MS-DOS applications even though Microsoft stopped developing and supporting MS-DOS more than two decades ago.. While FreeDOS has ...

To a computer novice, the subject of operating systems is usually a cloudy one, a too-technical matter riddled with unintelligible terms such as”DOS,” ”UNIX,” ”BIOS” and ”CP/M.” ...

Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that ...

The basic crux of the legend is that MS-DOS was somehow a rip-off of the operating system CP/M, and that Microsoft essentially pulled off a massive scam. But why would anybody believe this?

It's around this point that IBM's PC operating system, PC-DOS, began to diverge from MS-DOS -- and of course, come 1990, Microsoft released Windows 3.0, which would change Microsoft's focus forever.

Microsoft and IBM have joined forces to open-source the 1988 operating system MS-DOS 4.0 under the MIT License. Why? Well, why not? As Scott Hanselman, Microsoft's VP of the developer community, ...

Bill Gates claims that Microsoft Corp. does not have a monopoly in the operating systems market.That position seems difficult to defend given that the company’s Windows operating system runs on ...