The BASIC source code was fundamental to the early era of home computing as the foundation of many of Commodore's computers.

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

PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. Ahead of Microsoft's 50th anniversary this week, co ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

In the 1970s, Gates and his Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, used a computer in Harvard's lab to compose what he calls the 'coolest code I've written.' It's now public for the first time. Ahead of ...