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, ...

Despite its age, Word for Windows hews closer to modern user interfaces. It’s successor, the DOS-based, mouse-enabled version or Microsoft Word launched in 1983.

Windows 1.0 was Microsoft’s first attempt to create a graphical user interface for MS-DOS. Technically, it was not a fundamentally new system, but only a graphical shell that ran on top of MS-DOS. But ...

DIY Tech Hacks How to get MS-DOS up and running on Windows or macOS Take a trip to the past—and load up some classic apps and games. David Nield Aug 31, 2024 1:03 PM EDT ...

Windows 1.0 was created to be a graphical user interface (GUI) to be placed on top of MS-DOS, which made PCs that ran MS-DOS easier to navigate — it’s easier to look at a screen and click an ...

30 years ago today, Microsoft bought the rights to the Quick and Dirty OS, re-branded it as MS-DOS, struck a deal with IBM, and made history.