Tony Smith puns it up, with “Kudos to QDOS”: On 27 July 1981, Microsoft gave the name MS-DOS to the…operating system it acquired on that day from Seattle Computer Products (SCP). … The company had ...

We had a 286 with some version of DOS when I was a kid, I think we got it sometime around 1989. I grew up with the operating system, so switching to Windows later (skipped the pre-95 Windows) was ...

On November 20th, 1985, a then not-so-big company called Microsoft announced that Windows was commercially available. Read the full story of the Microsoft operating system below. Windows 1 to 11: The ...