A recent headline in Variety, “Trammell Tillman on ‘Severance’ Delays, Coming Out as Gay and Tom Cruise” prompted grammar ...

On a gray November morning, stacks of essays sat on an admissions counselor’s desk at a New England liberal arts college. She ...

We'd venture that most folks under 40 or so aren't aware that Bill Gates and Paul Allen, former head honchos of Microsoft, actually started their empire as hardcore programmers, and darn good ones at ...

Home Computer Archeology: Few early Microsoft products left as lasting a mark as 6502 BASIC. The interpreter introduced millions of people to computers and programming, shaping the next generation of ...

In recent years, software giant Microsoft has been releasing the source code for some of its oldest operating systems under MIT open-source licenses. Examples include MS-DOS and GW-BASIC, and now ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

I just wanted to drop a note saying thank you for releasing this. This software, running on a Commodore PET in the early 1980s, was the tool that taught me how to program. It launched a successful ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Microsoft announced that it has open sourced the source code for 6502 BASIC, one of first ports of its original BASIC. 6502 BASIC was written by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Ric Weiland in 1976 ...

We're trying to compile the 6502 Basic on a PDP10 running TOPS-10 and we're experiencing problems due to the miss of the source file of the M6502.UNV file that holds some macros needed to expand the ...

Microsoft has pulled back the curtain on two proprietary AI models, the first time Redmond has developed direct competitors to its partner OpenAI. MAI-Voice 1 is a speech-generation model that users ...