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

Bill Gates celebrated Microsoft’s 50th Anniversary ... The 157-page PDF available to download on Gates’ blog contains the origins of Altair Basic — a programming language interpreter for ...

Bill Gates began programming at age 13 and co-founded Microsoft before leaving Harvard. Alongside Paul Allen, he developed ...

Ahead of Microsoft's 50th anniversary this week, co-founder Bill Gates has released ... Monte Davidoff. Gates charts the origins of Altair BASIC in more detail in his new book, Source Code ...

With these words, Bill Gates introduces a blog post that ... As such, Gates and Allen decided to develop a BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800. The interpreter would convert BASIC commands ...

Meanwhile, Bill focused on writing the main code for the program, and Gates' friend Monte Davidoff worked on the math package. Eventually, they successfully created Altair BASIC. Once they ...

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

Microsoft is turning 50 this year, and Bill Gates is looking back at how the ... become the company's first product, which was the Altair Basic, an interpreter that translated code into ...

Bill Gates is reflecting on Microsoft's 50th anniversary — and sharing the company's original source code (as well as the story behind it) ...