Hey, at least Microsoft keeps some things consistent. 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 ...

There have been many remarkable products in Microsoft's 50 years of history, but these 5 were really impactful in our lives.

This means that they can, in theory at least, still run MS-DOS. The venerable Microsoft 16-bit OS may now be long discontinued, but there is still enough need for DOS that the open-source FreeDOS ...

Microsoft has announced that it is open sourcing MS-DOS 4.0, in collaboration with IBM, who developed portions of the code. It will be available under the MIT license. This came about because an ...

Raymond Chen, a Microsoft employee who took part in the Windows evolution for more than 30 years, is back with a new post on his well-known ...

If when you try to move, delete, copy, or rename files/folders in Windows 11/10 and you receive the Invalid MS-DOS Function file error message, then this post will ...

Before Microsoft had Office, before it had Windows, it had an operating system called MS DOS. MS DOS was a command-line operating system, meaning you had to memorize a lot of commands and type ...

If MS-DOS could play Doom, surely a battleship gray button was a possibility? Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has responded to suggestions that the Windows 95 setup was overly complicated.

This name reflected its primary purpose as a graphical interface manager designed to enhance the usability of the MS-DOS operating system. However, marketers at Microsoft recognized that the name ...

For example, MS-DOS, Windows and Microsoft Office have been flagship products of Microsoft. Photoshop is a flagship product of Adobe Systems, and the Mac Studio is the flagship model in Apple's ...