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XDA Developers on MSN

Microsoft just made its own code from the 70s open source, and you can download it right now

Fortunately, there are people around the world who work hard at preserving these older systems and give us a living, working representation of what computer science was like 40-50 years ago. Now, ...

Microsoft Goes Back to BASIC, Open-Sources Bill Gates’ Code

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

Want to build on Bill Gates? Microsoft open-sourced the original code written by the company founder - now it's over to you

Microsoft open-sourced Bill Gates’ 1976 6502 BASIC interpreter, showcasing early programming features and its historical role ...
Windows Report

Microsoft reportedly favors Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 over GPT-5 in Visual Studio Code

Aa OpenAI is looking beyond Microsoft for cloud services, Microsoft is quietly updating its AI strategy inside Visual Studio ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Microsoft Gives Researchers and Students Access to Source Code for Web Platform

The Microsoft Corporation is attempting to win the minds of academic researchers and college-age programmers by offering universities more than a million lines of source code derived from some of the ...

Microsoft Adds Auto AI Model Selection to Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code includes built-in integration with GitHub Copilot and the ability to choose which AI model to use for code ...