On this day in 1985, Microsoft unveiled its leap into the graphical user interface world with Windows 1.0, a piece of ...

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, ...

Where would you be without the graphical user interface (GUI ... finally became a real Mac alternative I've been covering Microsoft, DOS, and Windows since the 1980s, and Microsoft turning ...

Bill Gates announced Microsoft Windows, a graphical user interface for its MS-DOS operating system that he described as “unique software designed for the serious PC user.” Offering device-independent ...

Microsoft announced they'd no longer support MS-DOS in 1994. Everything on the consumer front was about graphical user interfaces, thanks in large part to Apple. (Some would say that Apple had ...

By that point, IBM PCs running Microsoft DOS were around for four years ... exact day 30 years ago that Microsoft's step into graphical user interfaces began in earnest. And regardless of which ...

For younger readers, this was before the operating systems even had a graphical user interface, back in the 80s. MS-DOS was an acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, and if you’ve ever ope ...

The first version of Microsoft Windows will be knocking on the door of its third decade Thursday when it turns the ripe old age of 29 — well past retirement in software years, given that ...

MS-DOS is a non-graphical command line operating system ... on their computer from a command line instead of a Graphic User Interface (GUI) like Windows. With all the advancements in computing ...

Windows, at least in 1985, wasn’t so much a brand new OS as it was a solution to the complications that an OS like MS-DOS presented. Windows 1.0 was created to be a graphical user interface (GUI ...