How Microsoft is betting on AI agents in Windows, dusting off a winning playbook from the past

Microsoft is pushing AI agents deep into Windows, reviving a platform strategy that once made the PC operating system ...
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Old games, new PC: How to run DOS classics on Windows 11

Who doesn’t remember PC games such as Maniac Mansion, the King’s Quest series and the dubious adventures of Leisure Suit Larry or software such as Microsoft Works and Lotus Smart Suite? These titles ...

Inside Microsoft’s Plan to Embed AI Agents Deep Into Windows

Microsoft wants Windows to become the platform for AI agents, echoing its early Windows strategy while balancing innovation, ...
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Someone made a ChatGPT client that works on a MS-DOS PC from 1984

That's precisely what Yeo Kheng Meng has managed to do, even though DOS does not have native networking capabilities. The machine in question is the vintage IBM 5155 Portable PC, first released in ...
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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

It was 1989, and I was obsessed with the Mac. Apple's portable, 9-inch-screen computer was an exciting graphical leap, and I wanted to use it for everything. But I wasn't using it. Instead, I, like ...
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ChatGPT goes back in time on a nearly 40-year-old MS-DOS PC

A retro computing enthusiast has come up with one of the craziest implementations of ChatGPT that we've seen yet. Yeo Kheng Meng has built a chatbot that runs on his 1984 IBM PC that runs on MS-DOS.

Why Is the First Drive on a Computer Called C and Not A?

Some things we don't think much about; we just accept them. But have you ever wondered why the hard drive on a Windows system ...