Work Trend Index predicts a workplace powered by AI agents, with employees acting as ‘agent bosses’ overseeing digital ...

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

It was for a build-it-yourself computer called an Altair 8800. An Altair 8800 at the University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. A company called MITS sold ...

Gates recalls that upon learning about the Altair 8800 in January 1975, he recognized the impending PC revolution and felt compelled to contribute. He believed that creating software could transform ...

After hearing about the Altair 8800 in January 1975, he knew that the PC revolution was imminent and that he had to be part of it, Gates recalls. If they wrote the software for it, they could ...

Before Windows and before Office, there was a carefully crafted BASIC interpreter designed to fit within the limited resources available on the Altair 8800. Why an interpreter? Compiling the code and ...

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?

To mark the occasion, Gates has released the source code he and Allen wrote for the Altair 8800 – dubbed Altair BASIC – which became the company's first product. Reminiscing about Microsoft's ...

It was designed for the Altair 8800 microcomputer, a groundbreaking device that inspired Gates and Allen to create software to make computing accessible to more people. The source code, which you read ...