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'We coded day and night for the two months to create the software we had said already existed': The history of Microsoft reminds me how far we've come in just 50 years

Tomorrow, April 4, 2025, will mark 50 years since Microsoft (or 'Micro-Soft', back then) was founded. To mark the occasion, Bill Gates has created a blog post celebrating '50 years of Microsoft' which ...
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Inside the Microsoft Archives: How the tech giant preserves, shares, and learns from its history

What happens here matters everywhere. by Todd Bishop on April 1, 2025 at 2:55 pm April 1, 2025 at 8:34 pm [Editor’s Note: Microsoft @ 50 is a year-long GeekWire project exploring the tech giant’s past ...

Microsoft’s first-ever programming language was just open-sourced

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

Microsoft open sources 6502 BASIC, a key piece of computing history

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 ...
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‘Eat your own dog food’: How Microsoft popularized one of the yuckiest terms in tech history

What happens here matters everywhere. Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Todd Bishop on Jul 28, 2025 at ...