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

Microsoft is celebrating its 50-year anniversary today during a special event at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington. The software maker will unveil new Copilot features, and we’re ...

Microsoft is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and the company is having some fun with it. The iconic Windows 95 logo was resurfaced, there is a themed version of Solitaire available, and Bill Gates ...

The Microsoft cofounder published a blog post on Wednesday about the code that would become the company's first product, which was the Altair Basic, an interpreter that translated code into ...

They worked for two months on it, alongside a third friend, Monte Davidoff. Gates charts the origins of Altair BASIC in more detail in his new book, Source Code, which he discussed in an interview ...

Their program for the Altair became Microsoft BASIC — think of it as the root of all their software that was to come. Paul Allen's original business cards from Microsoft's founding. Microsoft ...

TROY, Mich., April 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair, a global leader in computational intelligence, announced it will host ATCx Simulate at the Speed of Design 2025, a virtual technology conference ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates had shared memories from his past, including the original source code to Altair Basic, which would become the first product of the company.