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 ...

The magazine had featured a cover photo of an Altair 8800, a groundbreaking personal computer created by a small company called MITS. The 19-year-old Gates and his Harvard pal Paul Allen reached ...

Their initial focus on software for the Altair 8800 quickly evolved, leading to a partnership with IBM in 1980. This collaboration birthed MS-DOS, the operating system that would define the PC era ...

Bill Gates unveils Microsoft's original source code celebrating its 50th anniversary, highlighting the BASIC code he and Paul Allen developed for the Altair 8800. This code, Gates considers the ...

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 cover of the January 1975 issue of Popular Mechanics featured a photo of an Altair 8800, which Gates described as a "groundbreaking personal computer kit that promised to bring computer power ...

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 ...