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Microsoft turns 50: Will AI make it even more powerful?

The Times of India 05 Apr 2025
making computers accessible to everyone.A key milestone for the young founders was their 1980 partnership with IBM, which established Microsoft's MS-DOS as the standard operating system in the PC industry ... AI.
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Remembering MS-DOS 5.0, my first Microsoft product, on the company’s 50th birthday

Ars Technica 04 Apr 2025
On this day in 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded a company called Micro-Soft in Albuquerque, New Mexico ... Read full article. Comments .
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Microsoft's message on completing 50 years: Key things to know about the company

The Times of India 04 Apr 2025
This collaboration birthed MS-DOS, the operating system that would define the PC era of the 1980s and pave the way for Microsoft's enduring influence ... Early Windows GUI on MS-DOS evolved into a more ...
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Every Microsoft Windows operating system, ranked

PC World 04 Apr 2025
Windows 2.0 set up Windows 3.0 by allowing a protected mode kernel that allowed multitasking of MS-DOS applications, but Windows applications all shared a virtual MS-DOS machine.
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Microsoft at 50: Enterprise IT for the masses

Computer Weekly 04 Apr 2025
Formed in 1975, Microsoft is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, having powered the personal computing revolution first with MS-DOS, and then with Windows.
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Microsoft is now 50 years old

The Verge 04 Apr 2025
. Image. Microsoft ... This became the foundation of MS-DOS, which dominated IBM-compatible PCs during the ’80s ... Image ... That early Windows GUI on top of MS-DOS quickly progressed into an even more capable operating system with the launch of Windows 95 ... ... .
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Microsoft turns 50! Here are its 25 most important products and milestones

PC World 04 Apr 2025
Microsoft releases MS-DOS ... While MS-DOS was of course successful, companies like Digital Research (GEM), Tandy (DeskMate) and others were adding graphical user interface shells to MS-DOS, moving beyond mere text on a screen.
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Microsoft turns 50: Tracking Bill Gates' journey - from a dorm room to tech powerhouse

Hindustan Times 04 Apr 2025
Remember MS-DOS? It might sound ancient now, but it was a big deal back then as it was the first step towards the Windows operating system that most of us use today ... ‘MS Word’ for writing our school ...
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Microsoft president Brad Smith: ‘Our support for Ireland is steadfast’

The Irish Times 04 Apr 2025
When Brad Smith was offered a job as an associate with Covington and Burling, he had one condition for accepting ... “I got it – it was an IBM 386, and it ran MS DOS,” Smith says ... READ MORE ... .
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Microsoft’s wildest moment in 50 years still makes us laugh

Digital Trends 04 Apr 2025
... will point to the 1981 launch of MS-DOS as key turning point.
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Computer pioneer Microsoft turns 50 in the age of AI

RTE 04 Apr 2025
The only company with a higher market cap is iPhone maker Apple ... Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. They launched the MS-DOS operating system that became known as "Windows" and went on to run most of the world's computers ... .
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Magid: Microsoft Turns 50

East Bay Times 03 Apr 2025
Microsoft, which was smart enough to negotiate a non-exclusive agreement with IBM, later launched a derivative called MS-DOS, which was the underlying software for of IBM compatible PCs.
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From IBM to OpenAI: 50 years of winning (and failed) strategies at Microsoft

Beijing News 02 Apr 2025
Gates then purchased the QDOS system from Seattle Computer Products, from which he developed MS-DOS (where MS stands for Microsoft) ... their operating systems, including Microsoft's MS-DOS, ran with forbidding command lines, like the infamous C./.
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Couple who felt ‘everything seemed to work against us’ when trying to buy Dublin home now settled in Berlin

The Irish Times 26 Mar 2025
Daryl O’Leary (37) and his wife Maiara dos Santos Carvalho (35) left ... Mr O’Leary worked as a graphic designer and Ms dos Santos Carvalho was a sales manager with a tech company.
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Microsoft celebrates its 50th birthday with some ugly free wallpapers

PC World 19 Mar 2025
Nearly 50 years ago—April 4, 1975—Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen ... Only later were MS-DOS, Windows, and Office added to the mix ... Download yours and relive the magic. #Microsoft50” ... DOS and Basic were obviously unworthy of wallpapers ... .
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