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

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?

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

Phoebe Gates, the youngest and most stylish of Bill and Melinda Gates’s children ... with a pitch to get into an entrepreneurship class. First, they thought of a Bluetooth-smart tampon that ...

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 ...

Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist, has announced an ambitious plan to vaccinate animals around the world, beginning with a pilot program ... where the first vaccines will take ...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates is remembering the code he wrote a half century ago—code that played a critical role in creating the company.

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago ...

Bill Gates unveils ... “Altair BASIC became the very first product of our newly established company, which we initially decided to call Micro-Soft,” Gates explained, detailing the origin ...

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) founder Bill Gates nostalgically ... After two months of rigorous effort, Gates finished the code that laid the groundwork for Altair’s first operating system.

In a nutshell: Microsoft, founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in April ... MITS agreed to license the program, making Altair BASIC the first-ever product from Microsoft. Describing Microsoft's ...