Microsoft is celebrating its 50-year anniversary today during a special event at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, ...

Bill and I were using the same computing tech - the Altair 8800 and DEC's PDP-10 - as BASIC became a gateway for generations ...

I can top this - my first exposure to Microsoft was through Microsoft BASIC on an MSX computer and MSX DOS. For those who don't know, the MSX2 (and its games) would make C64 users jealous - if ...

The update doesn’t bring any really big changes – it’s still an open source operating system designed to offer compatibility ...

In honor of Microsoft's 50th anniversary, we've ranked the best Windows consumer operating systems Microsoft has ever shipped ...

Fifty years ago, on April 4, 1975, Bill Gates and the late Paul Allen founded Microsoft. A half century later, it’s one of ...

In 1975, a few nerds formed a company to sell programming tools to other nerds. So how did Microsoft go on to become a ...

Back then, everything centered around the development and sales of BASIC code interpreters. Only later were MS-DOS, Windows, and Office added to the mix. Microsoft is celebrating their upcoming ...

The company helped launch the software industry and bring a computer to every desktop. Hit products like Windows and the Xbox ...

There was nothing particularly exciting about DOS or Microsoft, at least back then. It was pervasive but not iconic. If I'm ...

In the spring of 1975, a college dropout and his childhood friend launched a tiny software company in Albuquerque with a ...