Microsoft called the code—written by the company’s founder, Bill Gates, and its second-ever employee, Ric Weiland—”one of the ...

That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started ...

In 1977, Commodore licensed BASIC for $25,000 as a one-time payment, securing perpetual use without royalties.

Microsoft has released the source code for the BASIC version it developed in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor, a central ...

"Rick Weiland and I (Bill Gates) wrote the 6502 BASIC," Gates commented on the Page Table blog in 2010. "I put the WAIT ...

Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...

The code Microsoft has released is version 1.1, which apparently contains fixes to the garbage collector identified by ...

The language that made that all possible. They called it the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code— BASIC. Before BASIC, life in the computer programming world was complicated.

As such, the How to Code app by Codecademy targets total newcomers to computer programming. Its relatively short repertoire covers the absolute basics, such as how programs are written and a few ...

Experiments in airborne BASIC—”buzzing” computer code over FM radio Before the 'Net, Finland created a primetime program-sharing radio service.