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

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-10-15 21:24:02

Doug Wilson/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. If, like my ZDNET colleague David Gerwitz and I, you were tinkering with computers in 1975, you badly wanted an MITS Altair 8080 computer, the first PC. To build software on it, most of us used Altair BASIC. A pair of

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Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-16 08:56:13

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through custom adaptations. The company posted 6,955 lines of assembly language code to GitHub under an MIT license, allowing anyone to freely use, modify, and distribute the code that helped launch the personal computer revolution. "Rick Weiland and I (Bill Gates) wrote the 6502 BASIC," Gates commented on the

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Microsoft is about to shake up its Copilot pricing for businesses

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-16 13:00:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s no secret that Microsoft has been struggling to sell its Copilot AI assistant to businesses. The steep pricing has put many businesses off paying extra for Microsoft’s AI services, especially when OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been gaining traction in the all-important enterprise market. Micros

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Microsoft open-sources its 6502 version of BASIC from 1976

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-17 13:18:23

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. After years of unofficial copies of Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC floating around on the internet, the software giant has released the code under an open-source license. 6502 BASIC was one of Microsoft’s first pieces of software, adapted in 1976 by Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and early employee

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Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 07:28:32

Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor - Version 1.1 Historical Significance This assembly language source code represents one of the most historically significant pieces of software from the early personal computer era. It is the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC Version 1.1 for the 6502 microprocessor, originally developed and copyrighted by Microsoft in 1976-1978. Why This Document is Historically Important 1. Foundation of the Personal Computer Revolution This BASIC interpreter

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Mis-issued certificates for 1.1.1.1 DNS service pose a threat to the Internet

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-18 13:40:38

People in Internet security circles are sounding the alarm over the issuance of three TLS certificates for 1.1.1.1, a widely used DNS service from content delivery network Cloudflare and the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) Internet registry. The certificates, issued in May, can be used to decrypt domain lookup queries encrypted through DNS over HTTPS, a protocol that provides end-to-end encryption when end-user devices seek the IP address of a particular domain they want to acce

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Microsoft Releases Historic 6502 Basic

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 17:28:32

Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor - Version 1.1 Historical Significance This assembly language source code represents one of the most historically significant pieces of software from the early personal computer era. It is the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC Version 1.1 for the 6502 microprocessor, originally developed and copyrighted by Microsoft in 1976-1978. Why This Document is Historically Important 1. Foundation of the Personal Computer Revolution This BASIC interpreter

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Microsoft’s PowerToys are about to add two big missing Windows features

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-19 13:46:56

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Have you ever wanted Windows 11 to automatically switch between light and dark modes based on a schedule, or help you find keyboard shortcut conflicts? Well, Microsoft is about to solve both of these missing Windows features with PowerToys. The latest 0.94 release of PowerToys, the useful

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Microsoft rewarded for security failures with another US Government contract

news.ycombinator.com Brandon Vigliarolo 2025-10-20 20:30:35

Microsoft, the latest tech firm to agree to big software discounts for the US government, is digging even deeper into its bargain bin than the competition by offering a year of free Copilot access to government agencies willing to put up with its other problem products. The General Services Administration (GSA) announced its new deal with Microsoft on Tuesday, describing it as a "strategic partnership" that could save the federal government as much as $3.1 billion over the next year. The GSA di

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Microsoft gave Perfect Dark’s developers a chance to save the game — after it was already canceled

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-10-20 21:49:00

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. In July, Microsoft’s sweeping layoffs hit Xbox hard, and shuttered the entire game studio that was building Perfect Dark. Officially, the game was canceled. But unofficially, reports Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, Microsoft gave Perfect Dark’s other set of

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Microsoft offers U.S. government over $6 billion in savings on cloud services over 3 years

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-10-22 06:49:21

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during an American Technology Council roundtable at the White House in Washington on June 19, 2017. Microsoft has agreed to give the U.S. General Services Administration $3.1 billion in potential savings over the course of a year on cloud services used at government agencies. Since President Donald Trump's return to the White House in January, the GSA has sought to aggregate spending through a strategy called OneGov that's me

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The Morning After: DJI’s tiny Mic 3 can record four subjects at once

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-22 06:19:20

It was a quiet Labor Day weekend for tech, but the Engadget team has kept busy testing out new gear from the likes of DJI, Sony and Bose. I want to kick things off with the new flagship DJI Mic 3. The wireless mics have a wholesale design change from the Mic 2, plus many improvements in sound quality, noise reduction and the number of subjects you can record at once — though there is one downgrade compared to the last model. I’ve had one for over a week, so I’ll share some impressions as well.

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Windows is finally bringing Mac-style clipboard sync magic to Android

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-22 07:57:49

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR The clipboard sync feature allows you to access the Windows clipboard content on your Android smartphone. This feature is currently available in the Windows Dev build. You need to be logged in to your Microsoft account on both devices to use the feature. When you want to copy something like complex code or a long paragraph that’s open on your Windows PC to your Android smartphone, you usually end up copying and sending it to yourself via WhatsApp or

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Microsoft found a way to let you play YouTube in the background on Android, without Premium

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-24 13:57:59

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Microsoft is testing a new feature on its Edge browser for Android that lets you play videos in the background. The feature can be enabled through the Edge flags page. It works on YouTube, so you can play YouTube videos in the background. Edge Canary for Android also offers a built-in ad blocker that works on YouTube. One of the main benefits of subscribing to the $14 YouTube Premium plan is that it allows you to play videos in the background. But you mig

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Meet the Top 10 AI-Proof Jobs That Everyone Wants

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-24 08:25:08

AI is rapidly scaling in the workforce and creating fears of an employment crisis, as workers and people entering the workforce try to figure out if their career is on the chopping block. That quick pace is backed by emerging data. As a result, people are trying to find “AI-proof” jobs that can guarantee job security as companies around the world choose to automate tasks instead of hiring new workers. Although no study can definitively say which occupations are 100% AI-proof and which are doom

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No, a Windows update probably didn’t brick your SSD

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-10-24 01:57:19

For the last week or two, reports have been circulating that recent Windows 11 updates (specifically KB5063878 and KB5062660) were causing some SSDs using Phison controllers to fail. Tech influencers on YouTube and TikTok were quick to jump on the reports of corrupted data and disappearing drives, laying the blame squarely at Microsoft’s feet. We’re not saying any company is above lying to the public, and Microsoft has a history of rocky update rollouts, but both Microsoft and Phison claim they’

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If You're Still Running Windows 10, You Need to Do This One Thing Before Oct. 14

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-24 02:00:06

Microsoft is about to pull the plug on Windows 10. Support for the decade-old operating system is scheduled to end on October 14, and users are encouraged to upgrade to Windows 11. However, we're less than two months out from that end-of-support date, and nearly 43% PC owners are still running Windows 10. These users must now either upgrade their devices or continue using the outdated software if their device doesn't support Windows 11. To give its users more time to upgrade their software and

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Windows 11 25H2 update hits its last stop before release to the general public

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-25 01:10:21

Microsoft's fifth major iteration of Windows 11 is nearing its release to the general public—the Windows Insider team announced today that Windows 11 25H2 was being put into its Release Preview Channel, the final stop for most updates before they become available to everyone. That's around two months after the first Windows builds with the 25H2 label were released to the other preview channels. Putting a new yearly Windows update in the Release Preview channel is analogous to the "release to ma

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With new in-house models, Microsoft lays the groundwork for independence from OpenAI

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-25 01:49:54

Microsoft has introduced AI models that it trained internally and says it will begin using them in some products. This announcement may represent an effort to move away from dependence on OpenAI, despite Microsoft's substantial investment in that company. It comes more than a year after insider reports revealed that Microsoft was beginning work on its own foundational models. A post on the Microsoft AI blog describes two models. MAI-Voice-1 is a natural speech-generation model meant to deliver

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Microsoft fixes bug behind Windows certificate enrollment errors

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-25 05:02:25

Microsoft has resolved a known issue causing false CertificateServicesClient (CertEnroll) error messages after installing the July 2025 preview and subsequent Windows 11 24H2 updates. When it acknowledged this bug two weeks ago, the company asked users to ignore error events caused by recent updates that triggered a warning about the 'Microsoft Pluton Cryptographic Provider' not being loaded. "Following installation of the July 2025 Windows non-security preview update (KB5062660) and later upd

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Microsoft to enforce MFA for Azure resource management in October

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-25 17:56:47

Starting in October, Microsoft will enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all Azure resource management actions to protect Azure clients from unauthorized access attempts. This change is part of the company's Secure Future Initiative (SFI), will be applied gradually across tenants worldwide, and it requires users to enable MFA on Azure CLI, PowerShell, SDKs, and APIs to ensure that their accounts are protected against attacks. To avoid compatibility issues, users are also advised to up

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At OpenAI, Signs of Crisis Grow Behind the Scenes

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-25 20:43:50

OpenAI is still reeling from the disappointing launch of its latest GPT-5 model. It's being pelted with lawsuits from left and right, for alleged crimes like mass copyright infringement and colluding to ice out its competitors. More than ever, it's being criticized for its chatbot's alarming proclivity to not only give dangerous advice, but convince people to actually take it with its beguiling and sycophantic charm — a deeply weird phenomenon that's already led to several alleged deaths. Behin

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Microsoft Word will soon save documents to the cloud by default

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-10-25 05:46:00

In brief: OneDrive, Microsoft's answer to iCloud and Google Drive, is deeply embedded in Windows 11. The operating system doesn't display prompts for opting out of the program, and Microsoft is preparing to introduce more obstacles for users who wish to save files locally. The change will begin with Microsoft Word before coming to other apps. Microsoft 365 Insiders should soon begin seeing Microsoft Word automatically save files to the company's OneDrive cloud by default. Users can toggle the f

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Blizzard’s Diablo team has unionized

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-26 05:47:08

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. More than 450 game developers on Blizzard’s Diablo team have formed a union, making them one of the largest and latest groups of Microsoft workers to do so. The new union includes game developers, artists, designers, engineers, and support staff across the Diablo franchise, according to the Communications Workers of America (CWA) press release, which voted “strongly in favor” to be represented by the CWA. T

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Microsoft AI launches its first in-house models

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-27 01:13:04

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft’s AI division announced its first homegrown AI models on Thursday: MAI-Voice-1 AI and MAI-1-preview. The company says its new MAI-Voice-1 speech model can generate a minute’s worth of audio in under one second on just one GPU, while MAI-1-preview “offe

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Microsoft introduces a pair of in-house AI models

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-27 09:30:05

Microsoft is expanding its AI footprint with the release of two new models that its teams trained completely in-house. MAI-Voice-1 is the tech major's first natural speech generation model, while MAI-1-preview is text-based and is the company's first foundation model trained end-to-end. MAI-Voice-1 is currently being used in the Copilot Daily and Podcast features. Microsoft has made MAI-1-preview available for public tests on LMArena, and will begin previewing it in select Copilot situations in

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Over 450 Diablo developers at Blizzard have unionized

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-27 13:05:44

More than 450 Diablo developers at Blizzard Entertainment have voted to unionize with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The union will represent employees across multiple disciplines including designers, engineers, artists and support staff. This comes after a slew of layoffs in the gaming division at Microsoft , Blizzard's parent company, as well as across the industry at large. The Diablo team isn't the first to unionize at the tech giant. ZeniMax QA workers reached a union contrac

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The Console Wars Are Officially Ending

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-27 12:52:26

On Aug. 26, gamers booted up their consoles and killed a whole lot of bugs. While that may not sound newsworthy on the surface, Sony and Microsoft were actually making history. That's because PlayStation gamers were getting their first taste of Marcus Fenix's classic Locust-blasting adventure in Gears of War: Reloaded, a remaster of a gritty third-person shooter classic -- and a former Xbox exclusive game. And at the very same time, Xbox players were pumping lead into man-sized democracy-hatin

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Microsoft Word will save your files to the cloud by default

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-27 17:00:28

Microsoft says that Word for Windows will soon enable autosave and automatically save all new documents to the cloud by default. The company is currently testing this new feature with the help of Microsoft 365 Insiders in the Beta Channel, who will get it after upgrading to Word for Windows Version 2509 (Build 19221.20000) or later, which was released on Monday. Microsoft will also roll out this functionality to Excel for Windows and PowerPoint for Windows users later this year. "We are moder

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Don't Know What to Watch? Samsung TVs Add AI Assistant Copilot to Help

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-27 17:23:10

What's an uplifting rom-com to watch on a rainy day? What are the most popular new horror movies? Is there a Taylor Swift documentary yet? What's the latest Marvel movie I can watch for free? Don't strain yourself thinking. Just ask your TV. Microsoft's AI assistant Copilot is now available on certain Samsung TVs and monitors, helping viewers select which shows or movies to watch, where to catch up on past episodes and even how to learn more about the actors. Copilot will be integrated into th

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Latest Tech News

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

Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978

Microsoft is about to shake up its Copilot pricing for businesses

Microsoft open-sources its 6502 version of BASIC from 1976

Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1

Mis-issued certificates for 1.1.1.1 DNS service pose a threat to the Internet

Microsoft Releases Historic 6502 Basic

Microsoft’s PowerToys are about to add two big missing Windows features

Microsoft rewarded for security failures with another US Government contract

Microsoft gave Perfect Dark’s developers a chance to save the game — after it was already canceled

Microsoft offers U.S. government over $6 billion in savings on cloud services over 3 years

The Morning After: DJI’s tiny Mic 3 can record four subjects at once

Windows is finally bringing Mac-style clipboard sync magic to Android

Microsoft found a way to let you play YouTube in the background on Android, without Premium

Meet the Top 10 AI-Proof Jobs That Everyone Wants

No, a Windows update probably didn’t brick your SSD

If You're Still Running Windows 10, You Need to Do This One Thing Before Oct. 14

Windows 11 25H2 update hits its last stop before release to the general public

With new in-house models, Microsoft lays the groundwork for independence from OpenAI

Microsoft fixes bug behind Windows certificate enrollment errors

Microsoft to enforce MFA for Azure resource management in October

At OpenAI, Signs of Crisis Grow Behind the Scenes

Microsoft Word will soon save documents to the cloud by default

Blizzard’s Diablo team has unionized

Microsoft AI launches its first in-house models

Microsoft introduces a pair of in-house AI models

Over 450 Diablo developers at Blizzard have unionized

The Console Wars Are Officially Ending

Microsoft Word will save your files to the cloud by default

Don't Know What to Watch? Samsung TVs Add AI Assistant Copilot to Help

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