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IBM licensed and re-released it in 1981 as [[PC DOS]] 1.0 for use in its PCs. Although MS-DOS and PC DOS were initially developed in parallel by Microsoft and IBM, the two products diverged after twelve years, in 1993, with recognizable differences in compatibility, syntax, and capabilities.{{fact|date=October 2021}}
 
During its lifetime, [[Comparison of DOS operating systems|several competing products]] were released for the x86 platform,<ref name="roy">{{cite book |title=A history of the personal computer: the people and the technology |author-first=Roy A. |author-last=Allan |chapter=Microsoft in the 1980s, part III 1980s&nbsp;– The IBM/Macintosh era |page=14 |isbn=0-9689108-0-7 |date=2001 |publisher=Allan Pub. |___location=[[London, Ontario]] |chapter-url=http://www.retrocomputing.net/info/allan/ eBook12.pdf|access-date=5 December 2009 }} [http://www.retrocomputing.net/info/allan/eBook12.pdf] {{Webarchive|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060715184453/http://www.retrocomputing.net/info/allan/eBook12.pdf |archive-date=15 July 2006 }}</ref> and MS-DOS went through eight versions, until development ceased in 2000.<ref name="Historical Essays">{{cite web |title=A Compilation of 8 Historical Essays |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oyto0YS-bpYC&pg=PT18 |access-date=30 January 2016 }}{{dead link|date=July 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Initially, MS-DOS was targeted at [[Intel 8086]] processors running on computer hardware using [[floppy disk]]s to store and access not only the operating system, but application software and user data as well. Progressive version releases delivered support for other mass storage media in ever greater sizes and formats, along with added feature support for newer processors and rapidly evolving computer architectures. Ultimately, it was the key product in Microsoft's development from a [[programming language]] company to a diverse software development firm, providing the company with essential revenue and marketing resources. It was also the underlying basic operating system on which early versions of Windows ran as a GUI.{{fact|date=October 2021}}
 
==Microsoft Windows==