Observer

Bill Gates Celebrates Microsoft’s 50th Anniversary With Its Original Source Code

Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen pictured in 1984. Photo by © Doug Wilson/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images “At the time, personal computers were ...
Macworld

Here’s the 50-year-old Microsoft source code that inspired the first Apple computer

Maybe you didn’t realize this, but Microsoft is actually older than Apple. While Apple marked its 49th anniversary earlier this week on April 1, Microsoft will celebrate its 50th anniversary on April ...
Neowin

Microsoft open sources GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code

Microsoft has decided to open source its GitHub Copilot tool in Visual Studio Code. It has also shared some exciting developments. On the opening day of its BUILD 2025 conference, Microsoft has ...
Gizmodo

Microsoft Goes Back to BASIC, Open-Sources Bill Gates’ Code

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...
PC World

Microsoft’s first-ever programming language was just open-sourced

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...
CRN

Microsoft Depends On Shared Source, Dips Toe In Open-Source Waters

Jason Matusow, director of the Shared Source Initiative, said Microsoft would continue to add to the 20 products that it currently makes available for source-code inspection. Matusow was a session ...