Observer

Bill Gates Celebrates Microsoft’s 50th Anniversary With Its Original Source Code

Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen pictured in 1984. Photo by © Doug Wilson/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images “At the time, personal computers were ...
Macworld

Here’s the 50-year-old Microsoft source code that inspired the first Apple computer

Maybe you didn’t realize this, but Microsoft is actually older than Apple. While Apple marked its 49th anniversary earlier this week on April 1, Microsoft will celebrate its 50th anniversary on April ...
Gizmodo

Microsoft Goes Back to BASIC, Open-Sources Bill Gates’ Code

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978

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 ...
CRN

Microsoft Depends On Shared Source, Dips Toe In Open-Source Waters

Jason Matusow, director of the Shared Source Initiative, said Microsoft would continue to add to the 20 products that it currently makes available for source-code inspection. Matusow was a session ...