Wind power has run into some headwinds, and not the kind that spin its turbines. Recently, President Trump has decided to ...

In a surprising (if overdue) turn of events, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds, ...

Microsoft chief technical officer Mark Russinovich posted evidence of the historic dinner in a LinkedIn post. Dave Cutler, the legendary programmer and lead architect of the ...

Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft with his late friend and business partner Paul Allen. The company became a major part of the computer age, and Gates amassed billions in fortune following the ...

It was shaped by Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Ballmer and Satya Nadella over the course of the last half-century. On its 50th anniversary, Microsoft has launched new pages on its website to ...

Gates, 69, set the stage for that jubilee with a blog post reminiscing on how he and his old high school friend — the late Paul Allen — scrambled to create the world’s first “software ...

As Microsoft prepares to mark its 50th anniversary, company veterans are reflecting on the pivotal role of the late Paul Allen, who started the company with Bill Gates in 1975.

Bill Gates, front row, on left, and Paul Allen, front row, on right, in 1978. Microsoft/AAP. Gates describes the head of MITS, Ed Roberts, as loud and somewhat mercurial, an irony that is not lost ...

Bill Gates also shared an anecdote about his late friend Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with him in 1975. He wrote, "Paul was a couple of years older than me, cooler than me, and one of the ...

Bill Gates with a printout of the Altair BASIC source code from 1975, one of Microsoft’s earliest software artifacts. Click to enlarge. (Gates Notes / Ian Allen) [Editor’s Note: Microsoft @ 50 ...

Gates had founded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975. They initially had a 60-40 split, but Gates felt he was more committed to building the company, so he negotiated with Allen to make it 64-36.