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

Fortunately, there are people around the world who work hard at preserving these older systems and give us a living, working ...

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

Apps Codecademy: Hour of Code app for the iPhone lets you learn basic programming anytime, anywhere December 9, 2013 - 8:00 pm ...

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

[Mike] sent in a project he’s been working on – a port of a BASIC interpreter that fits on an Arduino. The code is meant to be a faithful port of Tiny BASIC for the 68000, and true to T… ...

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

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone.