Microsoft released Windows 3! Picture of 19yo Bill Gates and 22yo Paul Allen from February of 1975, show to the world BASIC, the language
Bill Gates predicts the future in 1994
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What Bill Gates said about the internet in a Microsoft internal memo 25 years ago today: It’s a ‘tidal wave’
Exactly 25 years ago today, on May 26, 1995, Gates wrote an internal memo to Microsoft’s executive staff and his direct reports to extol the benefits of expanding the company’s internet presence
Happy 60th Birthday Bill Gates
The founder of Microsoft and wealthiest man in the world turns 60 years old today. William Henry Gates III was born October 28th, 1955 in Seattle, Washington where he still resides in his post Microsoft years. He has much to celebrate as he turns 60. After leading Microsoft for decades it must be quite rewarding to see the company he founded grow in such a bold direction this year with a booming commercial cloud computing division, new category defining hardware that is leading the competition, and an incredibly fast adoption…
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: the book
Last October, I announced the release in February of the new Bill Gates’ book “How to avoid a climate disaster”. The book is released on time
How to avoid a climate disaster
In my book, Bill Gates share what he’s learned from more than a decade of studying climate change with experts and investing in the innovations we’ll need to address it. He hopes to explain the science in a clear and compelling way
Microsoft Open-Sources GW-BASIC
When I read that Microsoft released open-sources GW-BASIC, I couldn’t resist to take a look at the code on GitHub. I spent my childhood to play with GW-BASIC and Clipper (do you remember that?) These sources, as clearly stated in the repo’s readme, are the 8088 assembly language sources from 10th Feb 1983, and are being open-sourced for historical reference and educational purposes. This means we will not be accepting PRs that modify the source in any way. A little historical context The GW-BASIC source code being published is dated Feb 10th…
Microsoft brings PowerToys back to let anyone improve Windows 10 for power users
Microsoft first introduced the concept of “PowerToys” in Windows 95. It was originally a way for Windows engineers to test a prototype feature
Microsoft is building a quantum computer that may never work
Microsoft is working on a quantum computer that uses what are called “non-abelian anyons,” a quasiparticle that physicists aren’t sure even exist. Quantum computers promise to perform calculations at unfathomably faster rathes than today’s computers. Although other companies are using more realistic, proven materials in their work to create the machine, Microsoft is hopeful that its unique approach will pay dividends as the resultant machine should be less susceptible to external interference. The company has nearly 40 people working on the project, as quantum computing is seen as well worth…
25 years ago today Microsoft launched Windows 95
On August 24, 1995, Microsoft held what’s likely to go down in history as its biggest Windows launch in history with Windows 95.