With the emergence of microcomputers in the 1970s, Microsoft’s version of the BASIC programming language had become highly ...

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 been ...

Editor’s note: After this article was published, Microsoft issued a statement clarifying that cmd.exe will not be going away after all. Read Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols’ follow-up column. My very first ...

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.” Even worse, computer ...

In the MS-Dos operating system, standard system commands are used to carry out various tasks like deleting specific files, changing the directory, listing contents of the specified directory, etc. In ...

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 ...

Microsoft, like any company, has its detractors. Everyone from computer scientists to people who just hate Windows 10 have gone after it at some point. But an old, ugly rumor has just come back, with ...

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 ...

It's no joke. 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? That got Hanselman and Wilcox digging into the ...

This bright orange three-ring binder was received with the Rainbow 100 microcomputer of accession1994.0078, but is not in a Rainbow 100 binder. The spine has a label that reads: MS-DOS (/) USERS (/) ...