On this day in 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded a company called Micro-Soft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The two men had worked together before, as members of the Lakeside Programming group in ...

Nostalgic for Windows 95? Believe it or not, you can still find icons from the dusty old OS kicking about in Windows 11.

In context: Back in 1980, Tim Paterson was creating a new operating system he called QDOS or Quick and Dirty Operating System. The system was later renamed 86-DOS, as it was being designed to run on ...

The company worked with IBM to release a 1998 uncompiled version DOS 4.0 on Thursday, although unfortunately, this release lacks the app-switching capabilities that landed it the nickname MT-DOS.

The pifmgr.dll still lingers in modern Windows installations - a throwback to a simpler and blockier time, according to ...

We’re not 100% sure which phase of Microsoft’s “Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish” gameplan this represents, but just yesterday the Redmond software giant decided to grace us with the source code for MS ...

Got a machine that is running Windows 98 SE and is a:<BR><BR>P4 2.0GHz<BR>1.0GB RAM<BR>RAID 80GB hard drive.<BR><BR>The machine needs to run 98 because or a old DOS Point of Sale program. When the ...

Windows 3.1 liberated the mainstream from the DOS prompt, and Windows 95 felt like the future had arrived when I first tried ...

Microsoft is looking into a report of a Windows flaw that could cause certain applications to crash, the software maker said Thursday. The potential flaw affects Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, ...

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 ...

There are a growing number of handheld gaming PCs, including models with the latest Intel or AMD processors, high-performance integrated graphics, and built-in game controllers. And then there’s the ...