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

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Commemorating Microsoft’s 50th anniversary, Bill Gates provides a first-hand account of the company’s origin story. The post gains extra charm from an interactive design that transforms the text into ...

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

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 ...

Gates and Allen were pitching an interpreter that would run code written in BASIC on the Altair 8800. The problem was that when they made their pitch to MITS, they had not yet developed a BASIC ...

This made it natural for him to be interested in, and subsequently to build, the predecessor of the modern PC, the Altair 8800, which came to fame when it was featured on the January 1975 cover of ...

(He has often spoken of the impetus for starting the company: Paul Allen picked up a copy of Ziff-Davis' Popular Electronics with an Altair 8800 on the cover and brought it to his dorm room.) ...

On April 23, 1985, the Coca-Cola company introduced New Coke. Due to losing market share to diet soft drinks and non-cola beverages, as well as blind taste tests suggesting consumers preferred the ...

Key Takeaways Microsoft’s foundation was sparked by an article in Popular Electronics about the Altair 8800. Bill Gates and Paul Allen initially had no software but assured the Altair CEO they did.

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 ...