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In a week of personal and professional revelations, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has shared the original source code that launched his tech empire, while his former wife, Melinda French Gates, is preparing to release a book detailing the end of their marriage.
Marking Microsoft’s 50th anniversary, Bill Gates posted the original source code on his Gates Notes blog on Wednesday, reflecting on the early days of the company, calling the code “the coolest code I’ve ever written.”
Gates was inspired by a January 1975 copy of Popular Electronics magazine, which featured the Altair 8800, a personal computer by MITS. Gates and Paul Allen contacted MITS, claiming to have a BASIC version for the Altair.
The pair then spent two months coding day and night to create the software, which became Altair BASIC, the first product of their company, Micro-Soft.
Meanwhile, Melinda French Gates’ new book, “The Next Day,” is set to be released on April 15. In the book, she discusses her divorce from Bill Gates in 2021, after 27 years of marriage.
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