Three CEOs, a talk show format, and protesters made Microsoft’s 50th anniversary memorable.

Microsoft is still talking about the same things it did in 1975, but with different technologies. Can Copilot help Redmond stick around for another five decades?

It may be surprising to learn that someone as successful as Bill Gates regrets not finishing his degree at Harvard. In fact, ...

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 ... Engineering Concepts, a computer class taken by ...

The British ZX Spectrum and the American Commodore 64 had their own dialects, i.e. versions, of BASIC (the latter was probably the most influential home computer in Hungary ... a version of BASIC for ...

The Altair 8800, created by a small electronics company called MITS, was a groundbreaking personal computer kit that promised to bring computing power to hobbyists. When Paul [Allen] and I saw that ...

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago ... 1975 issue of Popular Electronics magazine about the Altair 8800, a ...

Another obstacle to developing a BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800 was that computer memory was very expensive at the time, and the Altair 8800 couldn't be equipped with additional memory.

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