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

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

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

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Move programming out of the source code, into the database Sure, Web services will simplify change management, but it won't eliminate many unnecessary development costs.

Open source programming tool on the rise: Gerrit The rise of code reviews at larger development shops could lead to only one thing: the creation of a tool to automate the process. Enter Gerrit.

Nvidia, Hugging Face and ServiceNow are pushing the bar on AI for code generation with StarCoder2, a new family of open-access large language models (LLMs). Available today in three different ...

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 ...

Researchers say at least eight major Microsoft applications appear to incorporate borrowed open-source code--so they may be open to attack via the zlib security flaw.