How Bill Gates, the Altair 8800 and BASIC propelled me into the PC revolution
Bill and I were using the same computing tech - the Altair 8800 and DEC's PDP-10 - as BASIC became a gateway for generations ...
Siemens to buy Insight-backed Dotmatics for $5.1 billion
The German manufacturer has been exiting heavy-equipment businesses and shifting its focus to software to improve ...
Microsoft founder Bill Gates reflects upon a 50-year-old computer code that reshaped technology
Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago ...
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Siemens buys US firm Dotmatics for $5.1 bn in AI software push
Germany group Siemens said on Wednesday it is buying Dotmatics, a US software company, for $5.1 billion to leverage its use ...
Bill Gates releases the source code for Microsoft's first product, Altair BASIC
Reminiscing about Microsoft's early days, Gates said Altair BASIC was the company's "original source code," predating iconic products like Windows and Office. While he went on ...
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Bill Gates unveils the Altair BASIC source code, 'the coolest' he's ever written
Gates reflected on Microsoft’s early days, recalling the long hours spent coding on a PDP-10 computer at Harvard. He ...
'We coded day and night for the two months to create the software we had said already existed': The history of Microsoft reminds me how far we've come in just 50 …
April 4, 2025, will mark 50 years since Microsoft (or 'Micro-Soft', back then) was founded. To mark the occasion, Bill Gates ...
Why Siemens Stock Slumped Today
Shares in German industrial giant Siemens (OTC: SIEGY) were down by more than 6% in trading as of 3 p.m. ET Thursday due to ...
New Accenture Siemens Business Group to Reinvent Engineering and Manufacturing for Clients
Siemens and Accenture are significantly advancing their long-standing alliance partnership to help clients reinvent and ...