That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started releasing some of its classic operating systems and programs as open ...

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 ...

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

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

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

IIT Guwahati has released the GATE 2026 Syllabus for Computer Science & Information Technology (CS&IT) along with the ...

The emerging concept of "ambient programming" has become a hot topic of discussion in the programming community. On the surface, this approach seems to enhance efficiency, but in practice, many ...

In 1977, Commodore licensed BASIC for $25,000 as a one-time payment, securing perpetual use without royalties.

Today, Microsoft open-sourced the 6502 BASIC interpreter, the Commodore-specific port of Gates and Allen's first-ever commercial product, a simple programming language that was the entry point to ...

Instead of taking over, AI is acting as a helpful assistant, making the job of a programmer faster and easier. Think of it like a smart co-pilot that can watch what a programmer is doing and then ...

The humble inventions that power our modern world wouldn’t have been possible without decades of support for early-stage ...

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