When I returned to PCMag in 2000, Apple was just starting to claw its way back to relevance, and Microsoft was ubiquitous.

Even the startup sound came from the keyboard of Brian Eno. Though you could access MS-DOS, Windows 95 marked a clean break from the MS-DOS era, running in 32-bit mode. (Today, you can run Windows ...

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

It’s been 30 years since Windows 95 launched. [Ms-Dos5] and [Commodore Z] are celebrating with an epic exhibit at Vintage Computer Festival East 2025. They had no fewer than nine computers ...

Microsoft is celebrating its 50-year anniversary today during a special event at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington. The software maker will unveil new Copilot features, and we’re ...

The most interesting aspect of the update for retro computing enthusiasts is expanded operating system support: the app will now run on Windows 95 ... every era of MS-DOS and Windows.

Starting in the 1990s, Windows NT ushered in a new architecture that has been carried forward more or less intact ever since. Current client version of Windows. Windows is a 64-bit OS and runs ...

However, one of his most notable achievements was the porting of Doom from MS-DOS to Windows 95. At the time, subsequent games like Quake and Duke Nukem 3D were still on the horizon, slated for ...

Windows 95 Plus, which included Internet Explorer, would arrive later, and cost an additional $49.99. As with MS-DOS before it, soon, virtually all new PCs were shipping with Windows 95.