Siemens has finalized the acquisition of Altair Engineering Inc., a prominent provider of industrial simulation and analysis software, for approximately $10.6 billion. This strategic move is set to ...

Three CEOs, a talk show format, and protesters made Microsoft’s 50th anniversary memorable.

It's hard to underscore or overstate how much of an influence Redmond-based Microsoft has had on the entire world of ...

It was for a build-it-yourself computer called an Altair 8800. A company called MITS sold the computer as a kit. An Altair was about the size of an apple crate, with no screen, just lights and ...

an interpreter that translated code into instructions that the Altair 8800 microcomputer could read. "That code remains the coolest code I've ever written to this day," Gates wrote. "It's amazing ...

an interpreter that translated code into instructions that the Altair 8800 microcomputer could read. "That code remains the coolest code I've ever written to this day," Gates wrote. "It's amazing to ...

You can invest today for just $0.26/share with a $1000 minimum. After two months of rigorous effort, Gates finished the code that laid the groundwork for Altair’s first operating system. This code ...

He also described the moment as “bittersweet.” Gates and his friend Paul Allen were just teenagers in 1975 when they started working on code for a new personal computer called the Altair 8800. After ...

The article inspired Gates, who was just a freshman at Harvard University, and Allen to call Altair's maker, Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems, and promise the company's CEO Ed Roberts ...

In January 1975 young Bill Gates and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen read an article in Popular Electronics magazine about the Altair 8800 home computer from a small company called MITS. «When Paul ...

was inspired by an article in Popular Electronics magazine about the Altair 8800 microprocessor powered by Intel’s 8080 chip. The article inspired Gates, who was a freshman at Harvard at the ...