Harness the power of the command line on Windows.

Buried deep within Windows’ bosom is a carbon-crusted fossil from the ancient days of computing. This aged wart on Windows’ soul harkens back to a more primitive time, when computers lacked the oomph ...

New Delhi: Microsoft has launched a revolutionary new OS for their Lumia smartphone line, the MS-DOS Mobile. MS-DOS Mobile goes back to the basics. The user type commands to the prompt to access files ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: After this article was published, Microsoft issued a statement clarifying that cmd.exe will not be going away after all. Read Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols’ follow-up column. My very first ...

Without Microsoft, the world of modern computer technology would not be the same as we know it. Next year, Microsoft turns 50 years old, so it’s worth looking back at the megacorporation’s significant ...

Microsoft has been trying to increase the popularity of its Windows Phone platform, although it looks like the company has decided to take a new direction with MS-Dos Mobile. Microsoft has decided to ...

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 ...

In response to the E-mail I’ve been getting from readers curious about whether to buy the newly released Version 6.0 of the Microsoft Disk Operating System, I can report that I have loaded it into a ...