So, I’d like to take a moment to allay everyone’s fears: It also resulted in several customers/partners sending me concerned emails asking if this “news” was true. These “stories” were subsequently picked up by Business Insider and Life Hacker among others and fueled a number of concerned Tweets some of which I responded to directly, along with much discussion on Reddit, Hacker News, and elsewhere.
This post is in response to a story published on December 6 th 2016 by ComputerWorld titled “ Say goodbye to the MS-DOS command prompt” and its follow-up article “ Follow-up: MS-DOS lives on after all“.