Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates commemorates its 50th birthday by sharing the BASIC interpreter code that led to its creation.

As Microsoft prepares to mark its 50th anniversary, company veterans are reflecting on the pivotal role of the late Paul Allen, who started the company with Bill Gates in 1975.

Gates was clearly a mathematically precocious youth who loved to code, could hyperfocus, had crazy energy, and was intent on being the best.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has shared the 1975 source code for Altair BASIC ... Gates and fellow Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen famously spotted the Altair on the cover of the January 1975 issue ...

B ill and Melinda Gates divorced in 2021 after 27 years of marriage. But lately the tech billionaire-turned-philanthropist ...

Gates and his Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, used a computer in Harvard's lab to compose what he calls the 'coolest code I ...

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the ... how he and his old high school friend — the late Paul Allen — scrambled to create the world's first ...

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 ...

"Hard to believe that such a significant piece of my life has been around for a half-century,” the Microsoft co-founder wrote in a blog post Bill Gates felt a range ... in 1975 with his childhood ...

Bill and I were using the same computing tech - the Altair 8800 and DEC's PDP-10 - as BASIC became a gateway for generations of developers. Where were you all those decades ago?

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer ... post reminiscing on how he and his old high school friend — the late Paul Allen — scrambled to ...