MITS agreed to license the program, making Altair BASIC the first-ever product from Microsoft. Describing Microsoft's 50th anniversary as "bittersweet," Gates said it still feels like yesterday ...

Microsoft first launched Bing Cashback in 2008, a program designed bring more users to the site by offering them cash back on some of the merchandise they purchased via the Bing search engine.

Based on user posts to Microsoft-owned social network LinkedIn, the cuts have hit a variety of managers, engineers and other job titles in Microsoft. Microsoft’s new fiscal year has started with ...