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

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 ...

The article inspired Gates, who was just a freshman at Harvard University, and Allen to call Altair's maker, Micro ...

It's "the coolest code I've ever written," the Microsoft co-founder says.

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

Microsoft, which turns 50 years old today (April 5), started off with a lie. In 1975, the 20-year-old Gates and 22-year-old ...

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

Microsoft is celebrating its 50-year anniversary today during a special event at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, ...

It was for a build-it-yourself computer called an Altair 8800. An Altair 8800 at the University of Washington's Paul G. Allen ...

Would you forget the code you wrote years ago if it helped build the foundation for an operating system as massive as Windows ...

Reminiscing about Microsoft's early days, Gates said Altair BASIC was the company's "original source code," predating iconic ...

Bill and I were using the same computing tech - the Altair 8800 and DEC's PDP-10 - as BASIC became a gateway for generations ...