and running MS-DOS, Microsoft's character-based operating system on which we ran everything from word processors and spreadsheets to basic games and bulletin board discussion systems. There was ...

Former Lakeside School students Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Micro-Soft, a portmanteau of microcomputer and software, in Albuquerque, N.M.

To this day I think I'm more comfortable in command line environments on Linux/Unix OS's because of learning early on both MS-DOS and Commodore ... a glorified word processor, about ten years ...

To get the answer, just put a decimal point in the number "50"—my first Microsoft product was MS-DOS 5.0.

The art of writing has become a cluttered one to follow, typically these days through a graphical word processor ... There’s MS Word 5.5 for DOS, in the public domain since it was released ...

This name reflected its primary purpose as a graphical interface manager designed to enhance the usability of the MS-DOS operating ... and Write (a rudimentary word processor).

A full-featured word processing program for Windows and Mac from Microsoft. Available stand-alone or as part of the Microsoft Office suite, Word contains rudimentary desktop publishing ...

and even MS Word on DOS. Not long after I joined PCMag, Microsoft released Windows 3.1. Despite the incremental name, this was a huge update that rewrote the interface between the platform and the ...