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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft has released the source code for the BASIC version it developed in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor, a central component of many early home computers, The Register reports. As far back as ...

After years of unofficial copies of Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC floating around on the internet, the software giant has released the code under an open-source license. 6502 BASIC was one of Microsoft’s ...

Late last week, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered early personal computers like the Commodore PET, VIC-20, ...

A freelance Java developer claims it took him only 30 days to build and launch a basic open source office suite that runs on multiple OSes. Called Joeffice, it works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux as ...

Microsoft released emergency security updates for Edge, Teams, and Skype to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities in open-source libraries used by the three products. The first bug is a flaw tracked as ...

With the launch of a new, open-source project called NLWeb, Microsoft Corp. says it can transform any existing website into an artificial intelligence-powered application by integrating natural ...

Microsoft today announced the launch of Radius, a new open source, language-agnostic application platform for building and running cloud-native applications. The project is being spun out of the ...