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Microsoft just turned 50. Here's a look at an iconic 1978 photo of its first employees and where they are now

The 1978 photo came about because one employee, Bob Greenberg, won a free portrait from a radio contest.

Fortune

The 50-year-old code that reshaped the world: Bill Gates on the 'revolution' that started Microsoft

Microsoft founder Bill Gates reflects on the original source code that laid the foundations of one of the world's biggest tech companies five decades ago.

Euronews

Microsoft 50th Anniversary Copilot Event recap — all the big AI news and announcements

Microsoft is celebrating its 50th birthday with an anniversary Copilot Event today — follow along with us live.

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'We coded day and night for the two months to create the software we had said already existed': The history of Microsoft reminds me how far we've come in just 50 years

Coding onto paper and punch cards.

PC Gamer

Bill Gates shares his original Altair BASIC source code for Microsoft's 50th anniversary — "The coolest code I've ever written"

Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates commemorates its 50th birthday by sharing the BASIC interpreter code that led to its creation.

Windows Central

Microsoft founder Bill Gates reflects upon a 50-year-old computer code that reshaped technology

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago that opened up a new frontier in technology

The Independent UK

From IBM to OpenAI: 50 years of winning (and failed) strategies at Microsoft

Microsoft celebrates its 50th anniversary. This article was written using Microsoft Word on a computer running Microsoft Windows. It is likely to be published on platforms hosted by Microsoft Azure, including LinkedIn, a Microsoft subsidiary with over one billion users. In 2024, the company generated a net profit of $88 billion…

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Four Men Loom Large In Microsoft History

Microsoft was shaped by Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Ballmer and Satya Nadella over the course of the last half-century in the male-dominated tech world.

International Business Times

Three men convicted of cage fighter murder plot after raid on Geneva art museum

Two UK brothers and a co-conspirator attempted to kill a convicted armed robber just weeks after stealing Ming Dynasty artefacts worth millions of Euros.

Euronews

Museum burglars convicted of plot to murder £54m Securitas robber in his east London home

Paul Allen, now 47, was left paralysed for life after six shots were fired into his kitchen

Evening Standard

Bill Gates now drives an electric Fiat500 with a top speed of 100mph

Philanthropist Bill Gates revealed he was gifted an EV from Fiat by U2 frontman Bono for his birthday.

Fortune

Three men guilty of plotting to murder £54m Securitas robber

Paul Allen was paralysed for life after shots were fired at his large detached rented home in east London in 2019.

Evening Standard

Three guilty of plot to murder £54m Securitas robber Paul Allen

Paul Allen was paralysed for life after shots were fired at his large detached rented home in east London in 2019.

The Independent UK

Bill Gates’ origin story describes a life of privilege, exposing the DNA of some of the tech industry’s problems

Bill Gates, cofounder of Microsoft, is one of the world’s richest men. He is also a highly controversial figure.

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First came the £3m museum heist, then the murder plot, court hears

They carried out a brazen museum heist before career criminal’s shooting, jurors told

Evening Standard

Murder plot accused stole Ming dynasty porcelain from Geneva museum, court told

Three men are accused of plotting to murder former cage fighter Paul Allen.

Sports Illustrated

Ranking the 10 Best Announcer Calls From 2024 Football Season

Here are Sports Illustrated's best 10 moments in the broadcast booth across college football and the NFL in 2024.

Evening Standard

Brinks Mat robber shot in neck and paralysed in 'murder plot'

Paul Allen was involved in the Brinks Mat raid

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The Independent UK

‘Sophisticated’ criminal convicted over £54m Securitas heist ‘shot twice in kitchen in planned attack’

Cagefighter Paul Allen has been left paralysed after being shot in the throat

Evening Standard

£54m Securitas robber shot in the neck at home, court told

Paul Allen was paralysed for life after shots were fired at his large detached rented home in Woodford Green, east London, in 2019.

Fortune

Bill Gates says he got into every Ivy League school he applied to, but tailored a different 'persona' for each application: 'Each was a performance'

“I wanted the chance to see how I stacked up against the other brainy kids from a much wider pool than Lakeside,” Gates said.

Evening Standard

Source Code by Bill Gates review: the touching origin story of a tech titan

As I fire up the laptop to write this review, a company called Microsoft — or Micro-Soft as it started — asks me for an authorisation code for access to the computer. It is a timely reminder of just how embedded into the minutiae of our everyday existence is the…

The Independent UK

Bill Gates recalls tripping on LSD as a teen and joking with Steve Jobs about ‘getting the wrong batch’

Exclusive: Microsoft co-founder tells ‘The Independent’ he tried cannabis because he thought ‘maybe I would look cool’

The Independent UK

Microsoft founder Bill Gates explores the making of his internal operating system in new memoir

With his 70th birthday looming on this year’s horizon, Microsoft founder Bill Gates looked inward to open a window into the man behind Windows and other seminal software that turned the personal computer into a household staple

The Guardian - UK

Source Code by Bill Gates review – growing pains of a computer geek

The first volume of the tech baron turned philanthropist’s memoirs focuses on his parent’s struggles to control him – and a painful early loss

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