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 been ...

TL;DR: Microsoft will likely never release the original source code of Windows into the wild, but the company is clearly interested in sharing important episodes of its software development history.

Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that first appeared in MS-DOS 5.0 back in 1991. The new open source tool, built ...

goes on to found Microsoft with childhood friend Paul Allen. Ballmer to become the company’s first business manager. 1981 – In August, Microsoft releases its new operating software Microsoft Disk ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Thirty years ago this week, Microsoft set in motion a series of events that would make them the ...

PCMag has covered Microsoft's Windows operating system from its first iteration in 1985 right up to the current, heady days of Windows 11. Before Windows, we used and wrote about its predecessor, ...

A forensic computing researcher may have settled one of tech's longest standing controversies: whether the original version of Microsoft's seminal MS-DOS operating system contained code copied from an ...