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

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Move programming out of the source code, into the database Sure, Web services will simplify change management, but it won't eliminate many unnecessary development costs.

Microsoft just open-sourced 6502 BASIC (BASIC M6502 8K VER 1.1) from 1978. The code powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, and ...

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Microsoft Corp. is expanding a source-code sharing program for its Windows CE mobile operating system and giving users and software developers the ability to alter the code, provided that they do ...

The software giant will retain the right to include any commercially used modifications made by licensees of its Windows CE source code in future versions of that operating system.

Open-source projects such as operating systems often rely on human review of all new code to detect any potentially malicious contributions by volunteers.

The program will explore full feature spaces in binary code and source code files to measure the similarity between files and provide information to forensic experts to the likely origins (country, ...