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?

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

Gates and fellow Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen famously spotted the Altair on the cover of the January 1975 issue of ...

April 4, 2025, will mark 50 years since Microsoft (or 'Micro-Soft', back then) was founded. To mark the occasion, Bill Gates has created a blog post celebrating '50 years of Microsoft' which includes ...

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

Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates this week published the code that became the first product of the tech company, which turns 50 ...

An Altair 8800 at the University of Washington's Paul G ... Their program for the Altair became Microsoft BASIC — think of it as the root of all their software that was to come. Paul Allen's original ...

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

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

An Altair 8800 at the University of Washington's Paul ... Their program for the Altair became Microsoft BASIC — think of it as the root of all their software that was to come.