Commemorating Microsoft’s 50th anniversary, Bill Gates provides a first-hand account of the company’s origin story. The post gains extra charm from an interactive design that transforms the text into ...

It's "the coolest code I've ever written," the Microsoft co-founder says.

Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates this week published the code that became the first product of the tech company, which turns 50 ...

Microsoft, which turns 50 years old today (April 5), started off with a lie. In 1975, the 20-year-old Gates and 22-year-old ...

Bill Gates unveils Microsoft's original source code celebrating its 50th anniversary, highlighting the BASIC code he and Paul Allen developed for the Altair 8800. This code, Gates considers the ...

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

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

As Microsoft marks its 50th anniversary, Bill Gates is sharing a piece of software history — the original source code ... reached out to the Altair’s creators and told them they had a version of the ...

Gates looked back at a pivotal point in 1975 when he and his late friend Paul Allen took a leap of faith — and a major shortcut.

Would you forget the code you wrote years ago if it helped build the foundation for an operating system as massive as Windows is today? Bill Gates hasn’t. In fact, he’s decided to release it ...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates reflects on the original source code that laid the foundations of one of the world's biggest ...