The company helped launch the software industry and bring a computer to every desktop. Hit products like Windows and the Xbox ...

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

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

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

Reminiscing about Microsoft's early days, Gates said Altair BASIC was the company's "original source code," predating iconic products like Windows and Office. While he went on ...

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’s software empire started all the way back in 1975 with Altair BASIC. Microsoft’s software empire started all the way back in 1975 with Altair BASIC. Tom Warren is a senior editor ...

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

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has posted the source code for Microsoft’s first-ever product, Altair BASIC. Gates and Allen thought that the Altair 8800 was a sign that the “PC revolution was ...

Microsoft’s first software was created in ... who licensed the software. Altair BASIC was thus the first product of the newly founded company Micro-Soft. (The hyphen was only later removed ...