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 ...

Vice president S 'Soma' Somasegar shares his views on how interoperability and open source will help Microsoft weather the ever-changing climate of software code development ...

Interview: Stephen Toulouse discusses how Microsoft's programmers now develop code with security in mind ...

Microsoft's code leak increases criticism of the company's practice of tightly controlling its source code.

Today's Microsoft Code Name of the Day: Volta. Volta, named for the father of the "volt" unit of power, is a Microsoft research project dedicated to "stretching the .Net programming model to cover ...

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

Some Microsoft source code, specifically parts of Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000, was posted on the Internet for downloading from multiple peer-to-peer networks over the past couple of weeks. As ...

GOTO 1976 Microsoft has open-sourced the version of BASIC it created in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor used in many early microcomputers.… As the software colossus explained in a Wednesday post, ...

Today, Microsoft announced it is acquiring the company GitHub for $7.5 billion. If you're at all plugged into the broader world of tech, you've no doubt heard of both companies. But unless you're ...

Code-name hounds that we are here at Microsoft Watch, we were feeling a little depressed by the seemingly growing trend among Microsoft development teams to shy away from code names.