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You will find the complete list of MS-DOS commands below. However, MS-DOS commands are not the same as Windows command line commands or Powershell commands. MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) is ...

In the era of floppy disks and early operating systems like CP/M and MS-DOS, A: and B: were reserved for floppy disk drives, which pushed the first hard drive to C:. Floppy disks were dominant back ...

The reason Microsoft became so big comes down to the best deal ever made in the history of computing, between the fledgling software company co-founded by Bill Gates and the behemoth hardware giant ...

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 ...

MS-DOS or Microsoft Disk Operating System was the dominant operating system for Personal Computer throughout the 80s. MS-DOS is a non-graphical command line operating system. MS-DOS allows the user to ...

Microsoft, like any company, has its detractors. Everyone from computer scientists to people who just hate Windows 10 have gone after it at some point. But an old, ugly rumor has just come back, with ...

Microsoft is celebrating 50 years of existence in April, and whether you like it or not, this organization changed the lives of generations of us with its products and services. It’s synonymous with ...

I recently said that an MS-DOS boot disk couldn’t be created in Windows 2000. As several readers pointed out, this isn’t quite true. An MS-DOS boot disk can be created using files located on the ...

What was Microsoft’s best Windows operating system of all time? If you’re like us, you have…opinions. Even if you’re not the type to parse through all of the little details that separated Windows 98 ...

If Bill Gates is known for founding Microsoft and building it into one of the world’s most powerful companies, Paul Allen might be best known for founding Microsoft — and then, in 1983, walking away.