It’s been decades since Microsoft stopped developing MS-DOS, but there are thousands of old DOS applications that aren’t designed to run on newer operating systems like Windows 10. Enter FreeDOS, a ...

Without Microsoft, the world of modern computer technology would not be the same as we know it. Next year, Microsoft turns 50 years old, so it’s worth looking back at the megacorporation’s significant ...

It`s either a major revolution or a total bust, a big new leap in personal computing or a software version of the ill-fated IBM PCjr. The only consensus about OS/2, the International Business Machines ...

In context: Back in 1980, Tim Paterson was creating a new operating system he called QDOS or Quick and Dirty Operating System. The system was later renamed 86-DOS, as it was being designed to run on ...

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 ...