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I've been covering Microsoft, DOS, and Windows since the 1980s, and Microsoft turning 50 is more important than you think

It was 1989, and I was obsessed with the Mac. Apple's portable, 9-inch-screen computer was an exciting graphical leap, and I wanted to use it for everything. But I wasn't using it. Instead, I, like ...
ExtremeTech

Microsoft Windows turns 30: A brief retrospective

Thirty years ago, on November 20, 1985, Microsoft released version 1.0 of its new graphical shell called Windows. Much has been written about how Microsoft copied the Macintosh and Lisa, and how in ...
PC World

Old games, new PC: How to run DOS classics on Windows 11

Who doesn’t remember PC games such as Maniac Mansion, the King’s Quest series and the dubious adventures of Leisure Suit Larry or software such as Microsoft Works and Lotus Smart Suite? These titles ...
Ars Technica

Remembering MS-DOS 5.0, my first Microsoft product, on the company’s 50th birthday

A story about an obsolete PC, an old library book, and a one version of MS-DOS.
The Verge

Microsoft’s Edit on Windows is a new command-line text editor

Edit on Windows is part of new improvements to the dev experience. Edit on Windows is part of new improvements to the dev experience. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering ...
TechSpot

Check out MS-DOS running natively on modern hardware, showcasing the incredible backward compatibility of x86

In brief: A YouTuber has demonstrated the ability to run the venerable MS-DOS operating system and classic games directly on modern computer hardware without any emulation. This blast from the past ...