Bill Gates is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Microsoft by sharing the Altair Basic source code that created the very foundation of the company. 159 pages of retro coding history. Skip to main ...

Gates and his co-founder, Paul Allen, reached out to the company to pitch an interpreter of the BASIC programming language for the Altair 8800. The software would allow more users to easily create ...

50 years after the founding of Microsoft, Bill Gates has now published the entire source code of Altair Basic, the software that laid the foundations for the billion-dollar company.

To mark the occasion, Gates has released the source code he and Allen wrote for the Altair 8800 – dubbed Altair BASIC – which became the company's first product.

Writing in his bog Gates said: “Before there was Office, Windows 95, Xbox, or AI, there was Altair BASIC,” Gates reminded readers as he reminisced about those long-ago days of nerding out on a ...

Bill Gates unveils Microsoft's original source code celebrating its 50th anniversary, highlighting the BASIC code he and Paul Allen developed for the Altair 8800.