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

Macworld Maybe you didn’t realize this, but Microsoft is actually older than Apple. While Apple marked its 49th anniversary earlier this week on April 1, Microsoft will celebrate its 50th anniversary ...

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

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?

Microsoft is celebrating its 50th birthday these days, and it all started with the Altair Basic program. Bill Gates has now published its source code. 50 years after the founding of Microsoft ...

To mark the occasion, Gates has released the source code he and Allen wrote for the Altair 8800 – dubbed Altair BASIC – which became the company's first product. Reminiscing about Microsoft's ...

At the end of his post, he included a PDF of the original source code for the Altair Basic — all 157 pages of it. You can check it out here. In his blog post, Gates noted that late Microsoft ...

Written in 1975 with Paul Allen, Altair BASIC was the first software Microsoft ... for the PC industry,” Gates has bundled the source code drop with his new autobiography Source Code: My ...

Gates charts the origins of Altair BASIC in more detail in his new book, Source Code, which he discussed in an interview with our editor-in-chief earlier this year. "Before Office, Windows 95 ...