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

April 4, 2025, will mark 50 years since Microsoft (or 'Micro-Soft', back then) was founded. To mark the occasion, Bill Gates ...

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

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

An Altair 8800 at the University of Washington's Paul ... Their program for the Altair became Microsoft BASIC — think of it as the root of all their software that was to come.

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 ...

"Hard to believe that such a significant piece of my life has been around for a half-century,” the Microsoft co-founder wrote ...

In a nutshell: Microsoft, founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in April 1975, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month. To mark the occasion, Gates has released the source code he and Allen ...

They called their company Microsoft, and it led the personal computing revolution ... It was for a build-it-yourself computer called an Altair 8800. A company called MITS sold the computer as a kit.