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

MS-DOS established the "standard" way to operate personal computers during the Eighties, and the text-based operating system was still playing a significant "startup" role in Windows at ...

Unreleased preview of Microsoft’s OS/2 2.0 is a glimpse down a road not taken Microsoft's involvement in IBM's OS/2 project ended before v2.0 was released.

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

Before Microsoft’s “MS-DOS” rebrand, SCP first called their OS “Quick’n’Dirty Operating System” (QDOS), but soon swapped over to the more marketable 86-DOS name.

It's baaack! Microsoft and IBM open source MS-DOS 4.0 How did the operating system so bad it likely steered users to Linux 35 years ago come to be open-sourced now? Here's what happened.

The venerable Microsoft 16-bit OS may now be long discontinued, but there is still enough need for DOS that the open-source FreeDOS remains in active development.

The history of Microsoft’s flagship operating system (OS) includes all of that and so much more. Over the past 35 years, the Windows operating system has been through many reinventions.

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 ...

Now Microsoft has released the source code for MS-DOS 4.0 in partnership with IBM, and apparently, all it takes is the logo to make me go all mushy.

MS-DOS In 1981, MS-DOS became Microsoft’s first operating system, bringing the company worldwide recognition. This «black screen» was developed for the IBM PC, and it was based on 86-DOS, which ...

Microsoft started out as a software company begun by two friends in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Microsoft turned into a multi-billion dollar business, with a wide range of products under its name.