Microsoft called the code—written by the company’s founder, Bill Gates, and its second-ever employee, Ric Weiland—”one of the ...

That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started ...

Microsoft has released the source code for the BASIC version it developed in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor, a central ...

A few months after releasing the Altair BASIC source code, Microsoft has shared another cornerstone of its early software success. The company announced that 6502 BASIC ...

Fortunately, there are people around the world who work hard at preserving these older systems and give us a living, working ...

"Rick Weiland and I (Bill Gates) wrote the 6502 BASIC," Gates commented on the Page Table blog in 2010. "I put the WAIT ...

Specifically, it's a port of BASIC, the OS that founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed for use on the Intel ...

The language that made that all possible. They called it the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code— BASIC. Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated.

Experiments in airborne BASIC—”buzzing” computer code over FM radio Before the 'Net, Finland created a primetime program-sharing radio service.

Microsoft wants to turn kids' love of Minecraft into a love of computer programming through a partnership with Code.org, announced on Monday morning.

The code Microsoft has released is version 1.1, which apparently contains fixes to the garbage collector identified by ...