I can top this - my first exposure to Microsoft was through Microsoft BASIC on an MSX computer and MSX DOS. For those who don't know, the MSX2 (and its games) would make C64 users jealous - if ...

That last feature was never in the public releases of MS-DOS, only the underlying DOS system in Windows 95. If you have the right hardware, you can do networking and use basic web browsers.

and running MS-DOS, Microsoft's character-based operating system on which we ran everything from word processors and ...

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

Microsoft is celebrating its 50-year anniversary today during a special event at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, ...