To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Microsoft's founding on April 4, 2025, Microsoft founder Bill Gates reminisced in his blog about the creation of 'Microsoft's first product.' BASIC is a ...

Surely BASIC is properly obsolete by now, right? Perhaps not. In addition to inspiring a large part of home computing today, BASIC is still very much alive today, even outside of retro computing.

Having re-open-sourced MS-DOS on GitHub in 2018, Microsoft has now released the source code for GW-BASIC, Microsoft's 1983 BASIC interpreter. GW-BASIC can trace its roots back to Bill Gates' and Paul ...

BASIC, a programming language that first appeared on May 1, 1964, celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2024. With the grant, Kemeny and his team opened up their BASIC prototype to everyone at Dartmouth, ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...

Microsoft publishes the original 6502 BASIC source code from 1976 for the first time as open source – a milestone in the history of the company and its software Microsoft has officially released the ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has shared the 1975 source code for Altair BASIC.… The code was the foundation on which Microsoft was built. Before Windows and before Office, there was a carefully ...

Microsoft has open-sourced the 6502 BASIC programming language interpreter from 1976. Its source code is now available on GitHub. Microsoft has finally open-sourced one of its oldest products: 6502 ...