Microsoft was the company that made the move to market an operating system that allowed the users easy access to their files, with easy-to-remember commands that don't require any knowledge of programming and obscure codes. With this new operating system ruling the market, someone would be able to get on a computer and start typing commands without checking what brand it is and going to find a manual. Nor would the person need study the manuals in order to figure out how to install his new word processor. So MS-DOS—the MicroSoft Disk Operating System—came into being.   Proceed:     <-- History of the Prompt       --> Current Dir