This 1975 photo provided by Gates Ventures shows Microsoft founder Bill Gates holding a printout of the computer coding that launched the software maker. (Ian Allen/Gates Ventures via AP) Even as he ...

“If you are not the original author of legacy software, you approach it with no existing mental model for how the code is originally intended to work, nor any formal model of how the code actually ...

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. Although the code that Gates ...