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

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

Siemens has finalized the acquisition of Altair Engineering Inc., a prominent provider of industrial simulation and analysis software, for approximately $10.6 billion. This strategic move is set to ...

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 ...

Gates and Allen tackled the challenge by latching onto the BASIC computer language that had been developed in 1964 at Dartmouth College, but they still had to figure out a way to make the technology ...

Hit products like Windows and the Xbox became household... Microsoft turns 50: A look back at everything from the Altair to the Zune It all started with two kids who shared a geeky hobby.

so they created a BASIC interpreter to translate the code into something it could understand and act on. Another problem was ...

Ben Eater]’s breadboard 6502 computer is no stranger to these parts, so it was a bit of a surprise that when [Mark] wrote in ...

To solve this, Gates and Allen turned to the BASIC programming language ... to find a way to adapt the technology for the upcoming Altair computer, even though they didn’t have a prototype ...

The 19-year-old Gates and his Harvard pal Paul Allen reached out to Altair's creators and told them they had a version of the programming language BASIC for the chip that the Altair 8800 ran on.