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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"

Before Windows introduced its modern GUI system, Microsoft was well-known for its iconic command-line operating system, MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.
Digital Spy

Windows 8: Microsoft launches new operating system

Microsoft has today (October 26) rolled out Windows 8, with a host of new machines running the operating system available to buy, while some consumers can upgrade their kit. Windows 8 marks the ...
Houston Chronicle

How to Configure Config SYS

While Windows has moved away from using Microsoft Disk Operating System as a base, versions of DOS still persist. Some programs refuse to run in modern versions of Windows and require a DOS emulator.
Network World

Timeline: 40 years of OS milestones

Lordy, lordy, look who’s 40! Happy birthday, Unix — you’re looking great for your age. You certainly weren’t the first operating system on any platform, but you managed to stride from the minicomputer ...
ZDNet

Ghost Story: Fear of Microsoft Fades

As Halloween fast approaches, Apple is producing more good-natured fun, poking fun at Microsoft's decision to end the use of Vista as the name of its Windows operating system for PCs. It probably didn ...