As the forerunner to the graphical user interfaces in Microsoft’s Windows platform, MS-DOS helped set the stage for the company’s dominance in the PC software market. When MS-DOS was released in 1981, ...

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 ...

Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code ...

The software that helped build Microsoft into what it is today has been open-sourced on GitHub. The release marks 45 years ...

History painstakingly preserved.

For students of early PC history, this isn’t even the first piece of 86-DOS history that has been newly rediscovered this ...

Long before Windows, and even before MS-DOS, Microsoft sold a Unix-based operating system it called Xenix in 1980. It was the first OS made by the company, but it eventually sold it off in 1987. On ...

Editor’s note: After this article was published, Microsoft issued a statement clarifying that cmd.exe will not be going away after all. Read Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols’ follow-up column. My very first ...

You will find the complete list of MS-DOS commands below. However, MS-DOS commands are not the same as Windows command line commands or Powershell commands. MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) is ...

In the MS-Dos operating system, standard system commands are used to carry out various tasks like deleting specific files, changing the directory, listing contents of the specified directory, etc. In ...

You’re not really supposed to love an operating system. It’s like your car’s hydraulic system, your digestive system or the global financial system. It’s supposed to do its job — and not get in your ...