From there, the system runs a series of MS-DOS commands before displaying the Windows splash screen (followed by a "Stranger Things" version of the screen).

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Microsoft later licensed the code to other OEMs under the name MS-DOS. In 1989, Microsoft released Word for Windows, leveraging its earlier work on Word for DOS, which shipped in 1983.