Bill Gates celebrated Microsoft’s 50th Anniversary by sharing the source code that created the company’s foundation. The 157-page PDF available to download on Gates’ blog contains the origin ...

Microsoft is making its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) open-source today, opening up the code for community members to ...

To commemorate the event, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has posted the source code for Microsoft’s first-ever product, Altair BASIC. The story of the product begins with the computer credited ...

"It's amazing to think about how this one piece of code led to a half-century of innovation from Microsoft. Before there was Office or Windows 95 or Xbox or AI, there was the original source code ...

In a nutshell: Microsoft, founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in April 1975, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month. To mark the occasion, Gates has released the source code he and Allen ...

Microsoft has officially open-sourced Windows Subsystem for Linux at its annual software engineer and web developer conference, Microsoft Build 2025. Most components are now open-source, with the ...

If you regularly use command line text editors you might have heard that Microsoft recently released its own open source one, ...

Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux has become an important tool for developers and power users since it was introduced in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update back in 2016, giving them access to a ...

who has spent a lot of time reflecting on the early years of his life for his memoir Source Code, which came out in February, it's easy to remember the company's beginnings. Before Microsoft was ...