With the emergence of microcomputers in the 1970s, Microsoft’s version of the BASIC programming language had become highly ...

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...

An overriding memory for those who used 8-bit machines back in the day was of using BASIC to program them. Without a disk-based operating system as we would know it today, these systems invariably ...

In 1991, Microsoft Corp. was a tenth of its current size, with sales just crossing the $1 billion mark and about 5,000 employees. Its key products then were DOS, Windows 3.0, Word and Excel. Its ...

Microsoft has finally open-sourced one of its oldest products: 6502 BASIC. The source code for Microsoft BASIC Version 1.1 for the 6502 microprocessor is now available on the Redmond giant's GitHub ...

Four years after the launch of Windows 11, Microsoft is finally ending support for Windows 10, but what does that mean?