If you want to use your USB flash drive with both Macs and Windows computers, you have two file formats to choose from: exFAT ...

The gold standard for remasters, Fresh Supply rids me of DOSbox struggles and offers the definitive way to play the cult-classic DOS game, Blood.

In honor of Microsoft's 50th anniversary, we've ranked the best Windows consumer operating systems Microsoft has ever shipped, in order from worst to best.

My first Microsoft product was extended color basic on the TRS-80 Color Computer but I loved MS-DOS. I've thought about setting up an old box to run it just for nostalgia's sake.

I learned the ins and outs of Microsoft's dominant character-based OS, and wrote about it and the applications that ran on it, like WordPerfect, Textra, Lotus 1-2-3, and even MS Word on DOS.

After this Windows 98 was installed from a USB stick within a minute using [Eric Voirin]’s Windows 98 Quick Install. This gave access to MS-DOS and enabled the first tests, followed by benchmarking.

Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has responded to suggestions that the Windows 95 setup was overly complicated. People wanted to know: Why not just do that whole thing in MS-DOS? Chen's ...

That old legacy system is gone, never to be heard from again. Right? But what do you do on the fateful day that someone needs ...

Windows 2.0 is a 16-bit operating environment from Microsoft released on December 9, 1987, as a successor to Windows 1.0. Windows 2.0, 2.01, and 2.03 are shells for the MS-DOS system, providing a ...

Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has settled once and for all the question of why the Windows 95 setup program went on a tour of GUIs before finally introducing the user to the concept of the Start Menu ...

The setup file for Windows 95, which was released in 1995, consisted of three types of programs: MS-DOS, 16-bit, and 32-bit. When upgrading from MS-DOS, Windows 3.1 was installed along the way ...