The floppy disk contains the oldest version of 86-DOS thought to still exist. Although long-abandoned for far more advanced successors, MS-DOS remains a pivotal piece of computer history. Released to ...

What would Steve Ballmer say? Early Microsoft OS developer David Plummer has told his YouTube viewers that he thinks it is time that Vole open source MS-DOS and 16-bit Windows. Plummer started his ...

Building a complete operating system by compiling its source code is not something for the faint-hearted; a modern Linux or BSD distribution contains thousands of packages with millions of lines of ...

How was DOS part of the PC revolution? Is DOS still around? What did Bill write a long time ago? Remember the DOS prompt? DOS stands for disk operating system. The latest announcement is a blast from ...

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.

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 ...

Microsoft co-founders Paul Allen, left, and Bill Gates with an array of personal computers in the early 1980s. Microsoft’s decision to make software, rather than produce a PC of its own, defined its ...

Reader Steve P. sends in this question: “I’m running Windows 2000 and want to upgrade my system BIOS. The instructions say to create a bootable disk with the format a:/s command. However, the /s doesn ...

I am sure this question has been asked before but I have searched this Forum and Microsoft Knowledge Base and did not find the answer. Here is the question again.<P>How do you go about finding the ...

Reader Rob W. asks: “Is there any way to create a boot disk that allows access to NTFS drives?” Sysinternals offers NTFSDOS, a utility that allows access to NTFS volumes from MS-DOS. A freeware ...

<I>/EDIT: Sorry all for three new topics, I posted in less than 30 mins, but I am on dial-up, and I usually write posts and mails, when not connected, and then when I on-line (for an hour or so), I ...