Early versions of Windows were essentially a graphical user interface overlaid on MS-DOS. Compared with today’s pixel-packed mobile touch-screens and visually slick operating systems, MS-DOS is ...

It did not have multitasking or a graphical interface. It became the basis for future versions of Windows. Windows 1.0. Five years later, a revolutionary operating system was born, which «borrowed» ...

Windows 1.0 was Microsoft's attempt at a friendlier, mouse-based user interface, one that let you switch between several programs simultaneously, and without having to quit and restart each one.

Microsoft entered the marketplace in August 1981 by releasing version 1.0 of the operating system Microsoft DOS (MS-DOS), a 16-bit command-line operating system. The first version of Microsoft Windows ...

Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that ...

MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) is an OS for x86-based personal computers. After having been the head OS for IBM PC-compatible computers in the 1980s, it was gradually replaced by operating ...