MS-BASIC 1.1 introduced programming to a generation - now you can download it for free

That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started releasing some of its classic operating systems and programs as open ...
ZDNet

Microsoft: We won't evolve Visual Basic programming language but we'll open it to .NET 5

Microsoft has revealed it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5 but also that it has no plans to evolve the language. As Microsoft's .NET team notes, Visual Basic on .NET Core only supported Class ...
Business Insider

A Microsoft director explains why it's finally ending language updates for Visual Basic, a programming language launched in 1991 that 700,000 developers still rely on every month

Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a programming language first shipped in 1991 as one of the tech titan's first major efforts in making ...
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Microsoft’s first-ever programming language was just open-sourced

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...
Ars Technica

The BASIC programming language turns 60

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...