with MS-Dos Executive, Clock, and more". SEE: 20 pro tips to make Windows 10 work the way you want (free PDF) The short video kicks off with the Windows 10 logo to a 1980s synth pop track ...

Read Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols’ follow-up column. My very first technology article, back in 1987, was about MS-DOS 3.30. Almost 30 years later, I’m still writing, but the last bit of MS-DOS ...

Where Windows 8 has the familiar desktop waiting beneath its Metro UI, Windows 1.0 ran on top of the popular MS-DOS. In fact, you needed to install Windows 1.0 atop an existing installation of MS ...

By that point, IBM PCs running Microsoft DOS were around for four years; owners were quite familiar with the C:\ prompt and setting up CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. Windows 1.0 was Microsoft ...

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, ...

Microsoft launched its first version of Windows on November 20th, 1985, to succeed MS-DOS. It was a huge milestone that paved the way for the modern versions of Windows we use today. While Windows ...

Microsoft had, effectively, created its own market by developing a 16-bit graphical operating system that could run using two cheap double-sided floppy disk drives and 256KB of RAM on top of DOS ...

Microsoft arguably built its business on MS-DOS, and on Tuesday the software giant and the Mountain View, CA-based Computer History Museum took the unprecedented step of publishing the source code ...

Drop-down menus, scroll bars, icons, and dialog boxes made programs easy to learn and use. Windows 1.0 shipped with several programs, including MS DOS file management, Paint, Windows Writer, Notepad, ...

However, no one could have predicted this outcome when the whole journey started with MS-DOS and a vision to have every computer on a desktop. Below, you will find a chronology of events that take ...

Windows 2.0 and some applications. Windows 2.0 set up Windows 3.0 by allowing a protected mode kernel that allowed multitasking of MS-DOS applications, but Windows applications all shared a ...

Key features: Microsoft moves away from MS-DOS with its first operating system that featured a graphical user interface, which allowed users to use a mouse to point and click on tasks instead of ...