what is MS DOS operating system and what is the difference between windows 7 and DOS?

Question

I AM PLANNING TO BUY A LAPTOP ONLINE BUT IT STATS THE OPERATING SYSTEM AS MS-DOS
I WANT A WINDOWS 7
I AM CONFUSE
PLEASE HELP
AND TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WINDOWS 7 & MS DOS
THANX IN ADVANCE

Answer 1

MS DOS is most basic operating system, i dont think you can even install any other softwares and games on it, like Adobe Reader, Winamp etc., you may not use MS office to work with your document files, and you may not use internet, so its no use for you.... but the positive side is you will get laptop with very low price compare to if you go for preinstalled windows 7 laptops and the version you will get will most probably Home Basic,

Hence I will suggest, you buy Laptop with MS DOS that will save your money, and then even a dealer will give you Windows 7 Ultimate free of cost [but that will be cracked version, which doesnt make any diffrence] or you can get it from internet.

Answer 2

MS DOS is an operating system that was in use on all Intel based computer before the invention of Windows 95. It is a disk based operating system (meaning you load it from a floppy disk) and it has no fancy graphic interface. No icons, no mouse pointer, no menus, etc. It is entirely text based.



You can see a stripped down version of MS-DOS on a Windows computer by going the "run" on the Start Menu and typing in "cmd". This will open a windows with nothing but text in it. You have to know the DOS commands (such as "dir", "cd", "ren", "cls", etc.) to make anything happen. MS-DOS has not been used or sold in years.



To put a copy of Windows 7 on a computer, the manufacturer has to purchase it from Microsoft. Microsoft does give the manufacturers a huge break on the price over what they charge you to buy it in the store. But it is not free. So some companies that sell bottom end laptops really cheap will shave a few dollars off the price by selling you the computer without Windows on it. Once you get the laptop, however, you will find that you can not do anything with it.



It will not surf the Internet. It will not play music. You can not watch videos on it. You can not play any games on it. About all DOS does is allow you to manage files and move directories.



You would end up having to either purchase a copy of Windows ($200) or install one of the free Windows like Linux Operating Systems.



But you will probably find that a laptop with nothing but MS-DOS on it will be useless to you.

Answer 3

MSDOS is an obsolete operating system. It only offers a black text screen. you can do nothing serious with it. It does not even have any standard network services built in. Any machine loaded with it is likely to be too old and limited to run any current operating system.