Commemorating Microsoft’s 50th anniversary, Bill Gates provides a first-hand account of the company’s origin story. The post gains extra charm from an interactive design that transforms the text into ...

A former Windows developer reveals why Windows was dragging around 30 MB of completely useless data for many years. The data came from Bob, one of Microsoft's biggest failures.

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 Even as he grows older, ...

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

Microsoft is marking its 50th anniversary, celebrating five decades since Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded what would become ...

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago ...

It's "the coolest code I've ever written," the Microsoft co-founder says.

Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates this week published the code that became the first product of the tech company, which turns 50 ...

Guess which consumers preferred? (In 2014, Microsoft published the MS-DOS source code to the Web…then apparently released a second version in a proprietary format, making no one happy.) In Nov. 1982, ...

Pocket computers. Sort-of smartwatches. Motion-sensing game controllers. None of these big ideas are as memorable as Windows ...