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 ...

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 ...

This week, Microsoft is celebrating its 50th anniversary ... reached out to the company to pitch an interpreter of the BASIC programming language for the Altair 8800. The software would allow ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.

Microsoft’s first product was a version of the BASIC programming language for the machine. Much to Gates’ chagrin, though, people weren’t paying for it. Instead, they shared copies of it ...

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 ...

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.