Tag Archive: Microsoft

Apr 09

Geek Fact for April 9th

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In 1991, Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0 was released.

The new version of DOS provided the ability to run DOS in the high memory area and load some device drivers and programs in upper memory. Also added were the UNFORMAT and UNDELETE commands, MS-DOS Editor, QBasic and online help as well as the ability to access …

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Oct 18

Microsoft finalizes Skype acquisition

Microsoft has recently completed its $8.5 billion purchase of Skype Global, the publisher of the very popular Skype voip software – yep, that’s not a misprint…$8.5 billion!

It certainly is a heck of a lot of money but I still consider it a judicious move by Microsoft; the Redmond giant has not merely purchased a …

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