Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates commemorates its 50th birthday by sharing the BASIC interpreter code that led to its creation.

Gates and his Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, used a computer in Harvard's lab to compose what he calls the 'coolest code I ...

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

“The coolest code I’ve ever written.” With these words, Bill Gates introduces a blog post that celebrates Microsoft’s 50th anniversary by looking back on how the company got started. At the bottom of ...

If you want to see the original source code that started ... the software we said already existed." Gates and Allen then presented the code to the president of MITS, who agreed to license the software ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has shared the 1975 source code for Altair BASIC.… The code was the foundation on which Microsoft was built. Before Windows and before Office, there was a carefully ...

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?

In a nutshell: Microsoft, founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in ... Gates said Altair BASIC was the company's "original source code," predating iconic products like Windows and Office.