Windows 1.0 officially released to the public 40 years ago today (November 20), and despite its age, still has some common similarities with what users can expect from the operating system today.

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Microsoft has just released the December 2024 Patch Tuesday updates for all supported versions of Windows 11 and Windows 10. This month, various changes will roll out to Windows 11 users including a ...

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 system ...

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Well, this came out of nowhere: Microsoft and IBM have open-sourced MS-DOS 4.0, a legacy command line OS the two worked on together over 40 years ago. This release follows the open-sourcing of two ...

This guide explains how to boot regular (or real) IBM PC DOS or Microsoft MS-DOS in DOSBox-X, including creating hard disk images. Before going through this guide, consider if you really need this as ...

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