It hasn't always been smooth sailing for Microsoft, but there are clear moments in the company's history that proved to be ...

Siemens has finalized the acquisition of Altair Engineering Inc., a prominent provider of industrial simulation and analysis software, for approximately $10.6 billion. This strategic move is set to ...

Commemorating Microsoft’s 50th anniversary, Bill Gates provides a first-hand account of the company’s origin story. The post gains extra charm from an interactive design that transforms the text into ...

The article inspired Gates, who was just a freshman at Harvard University, and Allen to call Altair's maker, Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems, and promise the company's CEO Ed Roberts they ...

Three CEOs, a talk show format, and protesters made Microsoft’s 50th anniversary memorable.

It was for a build-it-yourself computer called an Altair 8800. A company called MITS sold the computer as a kit. An Altair was about the size of an apple crate, with no screen, just lights and ...

On April 23, 1985, the Coca-Cola company introduced New Coke. Due to losing market share to diet soft drinks and non-cola beverages, as well as blind taste tests suggesting consumers preferred the ...

Key Takeaways Microsoft’s foundation was sparked by an article in Popular Electronics about the Altair 8800. Bill Gates and Paul Allen initially had no software but assured the Altair CEO they did.

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

an interpreter that translated code into instructions that the Altair 8800 microcomputer could read. "That code remains the coolest code I've ever written to this day," Gates wrote. "It's amazing ...