That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started ...

Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Despite almost failing math repeatedly, I trained to be a developer and then became a writer instead. And yet I do math all ...

Nigeria’s newly introduced secondary school curriculum will, for the first time, include modules on journalism, computer programming, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and fact-checking.

Microsoft has open-sourced the 6502 BASIC programming language interpreter from 1976. Its source code is now available on ...

Most people’s memories of programming in the 8-bit era revolve around BASIC, and not without reason. Most of the time, it was ...

How do you program a computer that doesn’t exist yet? In a new project, researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ...