It's "the coolest code I've ever written," the Microsoft co-founder says.

meaning that users generally must compile the source code for all the software they want to use on their own machines rather than installing pre-compiled binaries from a repository. So ...

Bill Gates is reflecting on Microsoft's 50th anniversary — and sharing the company's original source code (as well as the story behind it) ...

Before Microsoft (or even Micro-soft), there was an interpreter called Altair Basic.

Software refers to a collection of one or more computer programs or micro programs in either source code (programming statements) or object code (machine-readable instructions). There are United State ...

Additionally, the program has to be translated every time it is run. Interpreters do not produce an executable file that can be distributed. As a result, the source code program has to be supplied ...

“The coolest code I’ve ever written.” With these words, Bill Gates introduces a blog post that celebrates Microsoft’s 50th anniversary by looking back on how the company got started.