A few months after releasing the Altair BASIC source code, Microsoft has shared another cornerstone of its early software success. The company announced that 6502 BASIC ...

But if you want to browse the internet, stream, or use most productivity software or office suites, you’ll find a capable ...

"Vibe coding" is a phenomenon that curiously differs in definition depending on who you're asking. It's a spectrum of sorts; ...

Specifically, it's a port of BASIC, the OS that founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed for use on the Intel 8080-powered Altair 8800. As explained in a Microsoft blog, the v ...

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

“In 1977, Commodore licensed it for a flat fee of $25,000, a deal that placed Microsoft BASIC at the heart of Commodore’s PET ...

Microsoft has open-sourced the 6502 BASIC programming language interpreter from 1976. Its source code is now available on ...

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

An overriding memory for those who used 8-bit machines back in the day was of using BASIC to program them. Without a ...

Empa, in collaboration with the Battery Data Alliance and international partners, has published the largest open battery dataset ever created, us ...

If the company can embrace influence rather than control, it has the opportunity to help define the open document standard, which will encourage even more growth in the category.

Open the Debian terminal on your Windows machine and type or paste in this command: cat /etc/os-release. It will print ...