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 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 ...

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 ...

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).

Microsoft, in collaboration with IBM, has announced that it is open-sourcing MS-DOS 4.00 as the two worked together on the underlying code. MS-DOS or Microsoft Disk Operating System was first ...

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 ...