Before Microsoft (or even Micro-soft), there ... Gates and Allen believed that enabling its chip to run a version of the Basic programming language would revolutionize the industry.

Microsoft updated its programming languages strategy, confirming that Visual Basic will remain a going concern even though it's still relegated to second-rate status when compared to C# and F#. The ...

BASIC still lives on these days—itself modernized, with GOTO (mostly) banished—in the world of Microsoft ... programming again in the 2010s—after a 25-year gap—I turned instead to newer ...

It was only with the introduction of Microsoft's object-oriented programming language and development environment Visual Basic in the early 1990s, which was intended to drastically accelerate the ...

"Many variants of the programming language appeared in the ... Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in 1975 to develop a version of BASIC for the Altair 8800 computer, the company's ...

BASIC, a programming language that first appeared on May 1 ... bringing BASIC to a new demographic of small computer owners and founding Microsoft in the process. In 1976, Steve Wozniak developed ...

“The coolest code I’ve ever written.” With these words, Bill Gates introduces a blog post that celebrates Microsoft’s 50th anniversary by looking back on how the company got started.

The programming language would provide the intellectual ... who used a variation of it as the foundation for the first Microsoft operating systems. Versions of BASIC still empower computer ...

Bill Gates celebrated Microsoft’s 50th Anniversary ... on Gates’ blog contains the origins of Altair Basic — a programming language interpreter for the MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer ...