Gates and his Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, used a computer in Harvard's lab to compose what he calls the 'coolest code I ...

Microsoft, which turns 50 years old today (April 5), started off with a lie. In 1975, the 20-year-old Gates and 22-year-old ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has shared the 1975 source code for Altair BASIC ... Gates and fellow Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen famously spotted the Altair on the cover of the January 1975 issue ...

“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 the bottom of ...

"Hard to believe that such a significant piece of my life has been around for a half-century,” the Microsoft co-founder wrote in a blog post Bill Gates felt a range ... in 1975 with his childhood ...

The 19-year-old Gates and his Harvard pal Paul Allen reached out to Altair's creators and told ... and then waking up in a panic night after night." She acknowledged what Bill Gates has publicly ...

In 1841, President William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia after serving one month in office. He was the ninth President of ...

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

As Microsoft prepares to mark its 50th anniversary, company veterans are reflecting on the pivotal role of the late Paul Allen, who started the company with Bill Gates in 1975.

Gates was clearly a mathematically precocious youth who loved to code, could hyperfocus, had crazy energy, and was intent on being the best.

In his new book, Source Code, Gates recalls a unique childhood that led him to build a technology empire. We talk BASIC, old ...

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the ... how he and his old high school friend — the late Paul Allen — scrambled to create the world's first ...