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Microsoft is rolling out Copilot Chat to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote for paying Microsoft 365 business ...
Today, Microsoft open-sourced the 6502 BASIC interpreter, the Commodore-specific port of Gates and Allen's first-ever ...
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 ...
In the 1970s, Gates and his Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, used a computer in Harvard's lab to compose what he calls the 'coolest code I've written.' It's now public for the first time. Ahead of ...
"Rick Weiland and I (Bill Gates) wrote the 6502 BASIC," Gates commented on the Page Table blog in 2010. "I put the WAIT ...
A security researcher has issued a warning to all 400 million users of Microsoft Outlook after discovering an email bug that could allow anyone to impersonate official Microsoft accounts. Vsevolod ...
Microsoft has finally fixed a known Outlook issue, confirmed in February, which was triggering incorrect security alerts after installing the December security updates for Outlook Desktop. The alerts ...
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Microsoft Open-Sources the BASIC Software That Powered Early PCs
In 1977, Commodore licensed BASIC for $25,000 as a one-time payment, securing perpetual use without royalties.
Update on April 25, 2025: As of yesterday, Microsoft has confirmed the issue and implemented a fix, but that fix won’t actually roll out until “early May” (Beta Channel), “mid May” (Current Channel ...
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Thomas Kurtz, Co-Creator of Computer Language Basic, Dies at 96
(Bloomberg) -- Thomas E. Kurtz, a Dartmouth College professor who co-created the novice-friendly computer code known as Basic ...
The global disruption highlights recurring issues in Microsoft 365 services and raises concerns over the resilience of hyperscale cloud platforms amid rising complexity and data loads. Microsoft’s ...
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