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Every Microsoft Windows operating system, ranked
In honor of Microsoft's 50th anniversary, we've ranked the best Windows consumer operating systems Microsoft has ever shipped ...
Microsoft turns 50 today, and it made me think about MS-DOS 5.0
To get the answer, just put a decimal point in the number "50"—my first Microsoft product was MS-DOS 5.0.
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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
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.
Millions of Windows XP disks secretly included Microsoft's failed search assistant to keep pirates at bay — "Bob was actually more useful dead than alive"
Bob resurfaced from Microsoft's Graveyard to pad out the 30MB of free space in Windows XP, keeping pirates at bay.
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windows 95
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 ...
There’s a new benchmark in town for measuring performance on Windows 95 PCs
The app spits out benchmarking scores for five things: single-core CPU performance, multi-core CPU performance, 2D graphics ...
Microsoft is now 50 years old
Microsoft is celebrating its 50-year anniversary today during a special event at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, ...