It wasn’t big news at the time, but it would change the course of tech history. MS-DOS, short for Microsoft Disk Operating System, was a text based OS. No graphics like the Windows or MacOS we know ...

The problem was the necessary qualifications: applicants were expected to have expertise with Windows 3.11 and MS-DOS – systems released 32 and 44 years ago, respectively.

It was called the Microsoft Disk Operating System — MS-DOS, for short. A manual required to operate MS DOS, on display at a vintage computer festival in Seattle.

Before Windows, we used and wrote about its predecessor, MS-DOS (Disk Operating System), without which the PC revolution would never have taken place.

The operating system diskette for this PC just happened to be running MS-DOS 5.0, so that was where I started. MS-DOS 5.0 is actually a fairly significant release of the operating system.

Windows Millenium Edition (Windows ME) paralleled Windows 2000 as a consumer-first operating system still tied to the legacy of MS-DOS, but didn’t exactly overwhelm users with its new consumer ...

In a shrewd business move, Gates and Allen made sure they could license MS-DOS to any computer manufacturer, not just IBM. That non-exclusivity deal helped Microsoft software take over the world ...

It was called the Microsoft Disk Operating System — MS-DOS, for short. In a shrewd business move, Gates and Allen made sure they could license MS-DOS to any computer manufacturer, not just IBM.

Microsoft was tasked with creating an operating system for IBM's line of personal computers, for which they developed the Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS-DOS).

There have been many remarkable products in Microsoft's 50 years of history, but these 5 were really impactful in our lives.