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.

MS-DOS or Microsoft Disk Operating System was the dominant operating system for Personal Computer throughout the 80s. MS-DOS is a non-graphical command line operating system. MS-DOS allows the ...

In later years DOS provided the foundation for early versions of Microsoft Windows, the company’s first operating system with a graphical user interface.

Not long after I joined PCMag, Microsoft released Windows 3.1. Despite the incremental name, this was a huge update that rewrote the interface between the platform and the hardware connected to it.

Microsoft and IBM continued to co-develop MS-DOS for many years; the version IBM licensed and sold on its PCs was called PC DOS, though for most of their history the two products were identical.

MS-DOS and the Command.com prompt are not part of the daily Windows user experience anymore, while Linux and other Unix-like operating systems have always cultivated a very different approach to ...

It might seem like the days of MS-DOS were a lifetime ago because…well, they basically were. Version 6.22 of the venerable operating system, the last standalone release, came out back in 1994… ...

The world of MS-DOS-compatible operating systems moves slowly enough that most of this information is still relevant; FreeDOS was at version 1.1 back in 2014, and it’s on version 1.3 now.

In brief: With 2,500 playable MS-DOS titles added to the Internet Archive, it just got a lot more tempting to take a nostalgic trip back to the '80s and '90s and play your favorite games from the ...