Microsoft called the code—written by the company’s founder, Bill Gates, and its second-ever employee, Ric Weiland—”one of the ...

Fortunately, there are people around the world who work hard at preserving these older systems and give us a living, working ...

Microsoft open-sourced Bill Gates’ 1976 6502 BASIC interpreter, showcasing early programming features and its historical role ...

Microsoft, which has been at odds with the Linux community over the years because of intellectual property issues, said on Monday it has released 20,000 lines of Linux code to the Linux kernel ...

Normally right now we'd be reporting on the May 2025 edition of Visual Studio Code, perhaps detailing the work to take GitHub Copilot Chat open source. However, Microsoft has extended the development ...

Microsoft is hoping to fire up a community of developers on a code-sharing forum the company has been testing since May but rolled out officially on Tuesday. The project, called CodePlex, is a forum ...

Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.104, adding Auto model selection and support for contributed language models in chat, alongside security, productivity, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) ...

In the wake of its Microsoft Build developer conference last month in Seattle, the software giant has launched an ad campaign, “Yours To Build,” that celebrates the coder community. The campaign, from ...

State prosecutors, seeking to change the balance of power in the personal-computer software marketplace, proposed yesterday that Microsoft Corp. be required to open ...