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Microsoft turns 50 today, and it made me think about MS-DOS 5.0

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75% Informative

Bill Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Micro-Soft in Albuquerque , New Mexico , in 1975 .

The company would be the company that would transform personal computing over the next five decades .

Writer recalls his first Microsoft product, MS-DOS 5.0 , the version he used on his first computer.

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75

Informative language

74

Neutral language

11

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

51

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possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

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not detected

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Time-value

long-living

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