Bill and I were using the same computing tech - the Altair 8800 and DEC's PDP-10 - as BASIC became a gateway for generations of developers. Where were you all those decades ago?

It hasn't always been smooth sailing for Microsoft, but there are clear moments in the company's history that proved to be ...

The coolest code I’ve ever written.” With these words, Bill Gates introduces a blog post that celebrates Microsoft’s 50th anniversary by looking back on how the company got started. At the bottom of ...

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

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago ...

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

Over half a century, the company has introduced technologies including the Windows operating system, the Azure cloud, video ...

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.

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