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 ...

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

Just five years later, in 1980, the company secured a deal with IBM to supply software for its first personal computer ... Popular Electronics about the Altair 8800. This minicomputer, powered ...

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

The cover of this publication featured a photograph of a groundbreaking personal computer known as the Altair 8800, created by ... “Altair BASIC became the very first product of our newly ...

AP This recent photo provided by Gates Ventures shows Microsoft founder Bill Gates holding a printout of the computer ... world's first "software factory" after reading an article in the January 1975 ...

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

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

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 ...

Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen pictured in 1984. Photo by © Doug Wilson/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images “At the time, personal computers were ...

They called their company Microsoft, and it led the personal computing revolution ... It was for a build-it-yourself computer called an Altair 8800. An Altair 8800 at the University of ...