Microsoft’s Historic 6502 BASIC Code is Now Open Source

The BASIC source code was fundamental to the early era of home computing as the foundation of many of Commodore's computers.

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 in shaping personal computing.

Microsoft favors Anthropic over OpenAI for Visual Studio Code

Microsoft is adding automatic AI model selection to its Visual Studio Code editor that will automatically pick the best model ...
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30 percent of some Microsoft code now written by AI - especially the new stuff

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has claimed about thirty percent of code in at least some of the Windows titan's repositories was written by an AI.… Nadella revealed that number during an interview with ...

Microsoft adds new code modernization features to GitHub Copilot and Azure Migrate

Microsoft says GitHub Copilot can address breaking changes in not only a company’s applications but also their dependencies.
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Microsoft prefers Anthropic's AI model for its coding tool

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code now incorporates an automatic AI model selector, favoring Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 over ...

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 ...