That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started ...

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Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...

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Developed by Microsoft employee Vijaye Raji, the Small Basic language, which was inspired by the original BASIC programming language and runs on the .NET Framework, was designed with the beginner ...

Nowadays, "basic" has a very different and derogatory Urban Dictionary-style meaning. Fifty years ago on this very day, however, it was the name given to a new computer-programming language born ...