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I've been covering Microsoft, DOS, and Windows since the 1980s, and Microsoft turning 50 is more important than you think

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 ...
Ars Technica

Remembering MS-DOS 5.0, my first Microsoft product, on the company’s 50th birthday

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. If I want to get something done it's still my go-to ...
Ars Technica

Remembering MS-DOS 5.0, my first Microsoft product, on the company’s 50th birthday

A story about an obsolete PC, an old library book, and a one version of MS-DOS.