Microsoft turns 50 today, and it made me think about MS-DOS 5.0
To get the answer, just put a decimal point in the number "50"—my first Microsoft product was MS-DOS 5.0.
I've been covering Microsoft, DOS, and Windows since the 1980s, and Microsoft turning 50 is more important than you think
There was nothing particularly exciting about DOS or Microsoft, at least back then. It was pervasive but not iconic. If I'm ...
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Why did the Windows 95 setup use Windows 3.1?
If starting in MS-DOS, the setup program would install and boot a minimal version of Windows 3.1 and then fire up a 16-bit Windows app to do much of the heavy lifting. The same 16-bit app would ...
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Myth Tested: DOS Can’t Multitask
It’s a piece of common knowledge, that MS-DOS wasn’t capable of multitasking. For that, the Microsoft-based PC user would have to wait for the 80386, and usable versions of Windows.
Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition
Selecting milestones and millstones for the Redmond-based biz is tricky since there are so many. The operating systems would ...
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Microsoft Updates MS-DOS GitHub Repo To 4.0
It’s interesting that they would preserve what’s arguably the least popular version of MS-DOS in this way, but then again there’s something to be said for having a historical record on what ...