You can now use Microsoft Edit to create and edit text files directly in Command Prompt or PowerShell without switching apps, ...

Microsoft arguably built its business on MS-DOS, and on Tuesday the software giant and the Mountain View, CA-based Computer History Museum took the unprecedented step of publishing the source code for ...

Microsoft is pushing AI agents deep into Windows, reviving a platform strategy that once made the PC operating system ...

On this day in 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded a company called Micro-Soft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The two men had worked together before, as members of the Lakeside Programming group in ...

We’re not 100% sure which phase of Microsoft’s “Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish” gameplan this represents, but just yesterday the Redmond software giant decided to grace us with the source code for MS ...

The company worked with IBM to release a 1998 uncompiled version DOS 4.0 on Thursday, although unfortunately, this release lacks the app-switching capabilities that landed it the nickname MT-DOS.

This is a new machine on which XP Pro was installed. During installation only the basic options were chosen.<BR>After installation, when I open a MS-DOS prompt, the file and folder names have a ...

Reader Steve P. sends in this question: “I’m running Windows 2000 and want to upgrade my system BIOS. The instructions say to create a bootable disk with the format a:/s command. However, the /s doesn ...

Editor's take: Back in the DOS days, real PC users wrote their textual tomes in the official MS-DOS Editor – I certainly did. These days, developers offer a confusing array of text editors, so ...

In a nutshell: When trying to install Windows 95 for the first time, PC users were presented with a dull text interface and no graphics. DOS could indeed "do graphics," but the Windows team decided to ...