In 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen launched Microsoft—a name born from "micro-computer" and "software." Gates didn’t just lead the company; he read and wrote the code himself.

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Microsoft founder Bill Gates reflects on the original source code that laid the foundations of one of the world's biggest tech companies five decades ago. Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder ...

“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. At ...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) founder, Bill Gates, nostalgically looks back on the computer code he wrote 50 years ago, which played a pivotal role in the creation of the tech giant.

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago that opened up a new frontier in technology. Although the code that Gates ...

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago that opened up a new frontier in technology. Although the code that Gates ...

Writing in his bog Gates said: “Before there was Office, Windows 95, Xbox, or AI, there was Altair BASIC,” Gates reminded readers as he reminisced about those long-ago days of nerding out on a ...

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago that opened up a new frontier in technology.

Source Code: My Beginnings; by Bill Gates Knopf; 336 pp., $30.00. You might hope that billionaires’ memoirs would do something to break through the persona, but oh no.

Bill Gates says Microsoft might not have taken off if he hadn’t dropped out of Harvard—or spent his nights sneaking out to code until 2 a.m. at 13 ...