Windows 95 officially released to the public on August 24 1995, setting the standard for the future of the tech giant’s ...

Windows 95 and 98 run a "kernel" -- the foundation of the operating system -- that processes data in 16-bit chunks, just as the old disk-operating system did.

The history of Windows isn't just changing Start menus. Here's a look at the evolution of Microsoft's flagship operating ...

Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of Windows 95, the operating system that revolutionized personal computing and introduced ...

FreeDOS is an open source operating system that allows you to run MS-DOS applications even though Microsoft stopped developing and supporting MS-DOS more than two decades ago. While FreeDOS has ...

MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) is an adaptation of QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) by developer Tim Paterson. It was destined to be the operating system for the IBM Personal ...

MS-DOS was an acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, and if you’ve ever opened Command Prompt, that’s the closest representation of how the OS worked.

MS-DOS or Microsoft Disk Operating System was first released in 1981, which was 43 years ago. Later, in 1986, MS-DOS 4.00 was announced and it was designed with preemptive multi-tasking in mind ...

However, Microsoft's operating system ambitions went even further back, having developed a Unix-like OS called Xinex that released in 1980 — a year before MS-DOS.

Publisher D4 Enterprise's EGGCONSOLE series has been giving the absolute most hardcore of JRPG lovers a window into the ...

In honor of Microsoft's 50th anniversary, we've ranked the best Windows consumer operating systems Microsoft has ever shipped, in order from worst to best.

Two big things happened in the world of text-based disk operating systems in June 1994. The first is that Microsoft released MS-DOS version 6.22, the last version of its long-running operating ...