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

Read the latest Microsoft news from Engadget's news desk on Xbox, Copilot AI, Azure, Windows, the Office suite of software and more.

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 ... an article in the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics magazine about the Altair 8800, a minicomputer that would be ...

Microsoft turns 50: A look back at everything ... 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 ...

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

On April 23, 1985, the Coca-Cola company introduced New Coke. Due to losing market share to diet soft drinks and non-cola beverages, as well as blind taste tests suggesting consumers preferred the ...

Key Takeaways Microsoft’s foundation was sparked by an article in Popular Electronics about the Altair 8800. Bill Gates and Paul Allen initially had no software but assured the Altair CEO they did.

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

The Microsoft cofounder this week published the ... an interpreter that translated code into instructions that the Altair 8800 microcomputer could read. "That code remains the coolest code I ...