Before Microsoft (or even Micro-soft), there was an interpreter called Altair Basic.

Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates commemorates its 50th birthday by sharing the BASIC interpreter code that led to its ...

Bill Gates is taking a look back at the code that started it all.The Microsoft cofounder this week published the code that ...

Gates and fellow Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen famously spotted the Altair on the cover of the January 1975 issue of ...

Bill and I were using the same computing tech - the Altair 8800 and DEC's PDP-10 - as BASIC became a gateway for generations ...

Microsoft is celebrating its 50-year anniversary today during a special event at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, ...

Ben Eater]’s breadboard 6502 computer is no stranger to these parts, so it was a bit of a surprise that when [Mark] wrote in ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the company in the most Bill Gates way possible.

Gates reflected on Microsoft’s early days, recalling the long hours spent coding on a PDP-10 computer at Harvard. He ...

Microsoft is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and the company is having some fun with it. The iconic Windows 95 logo was ...

Their program for the Altair became Microsoft BASIC — think of it as the root of all their software that was to come. Paul ...