An overriding memory for those who used 8-bit machines back in the day was of using BASIC to program them. Without a disk-based operating system as we would know it today, these systems invariably ...

One of the issues that any mobile platform struggles with when it launches is the lack of applications and utilities available to help users stay in touch with friends, manage their contacts, play ...

Microsoft on Monday released Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools, which will allow Visual Basic developers to create apps for Windows Phone 7 devices. "This release doubles the developer ...

BBC Basic did a lot of things, and often quite well. During the early 1980s, it extended the BASIC languages with easier loop structures, like IF/THEN/ELSE, and ran faster than Microsoft's version. It ...

Microsoft made the Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools available Sunday through the Microsoft Download Center. The release lets Visual Basic developers create Silverlight applications for ...

Nearly half a century after Bill Gates first began writing software that would launch Microsoft, the company has made that code public. In early September, it placed the assembly source for its 6502 ...