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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.
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FreeDOS, the Open-Source MS-DOS, Is Now 30 Years Old (And Still Going)
Today, the project is turning 30 years old. The FreeDOS project dates back to 1994, when Microsoft announced that its disk operating system (MS-DOS) would be phased out, as the company’s ...
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Millions of Windows XP disks secretly included Microsoft's failed search assistant to keep pirates at bay — "Bob was actually more useful dead than alive"
Before Windows introduced its modern GUI system, Microsoft was well-known for its iconic command-line operating system, MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.
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Microsoft explains how you can run MS-DOS 4.00 that it officially open sourced today0 0
Recently, we have been covering quite a lot of retro stuff for Windows which shows how modern apps have their roots in the '90s. If you are a fan of the bygone era of Windows, you are likely to be ...
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FreeDOS 1.4 Released
Even in 2025 there are still many applications for a simple Disk Operating System (DOS), whether this includes running legacy software (including MS-DOS games & Windows 3.x), or (embedded ...