Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen nearly 50 years ago. Here's a history of the company's leadership, ...

British computer scientist and Internet Hall of Fame inductee Peter Kirstein died in January 2020 at the age of 86, after a nearly 50-year career at UCL. A few years before he died, he was ...

Microsoft spent much of the late 1990s and early 2000s trying to find the next big thing with mixed results. Here are a few ...

Later, we connected the first multi-service heterogeneous network outside the US ( Janet, the UK’s academic network ...

The simulation in The Matrix was created using codes that we see flowing down on screen; let's have a look at how they were ...

Peter Kirstein had to overcome various hurdles to connect the UK to the internet, including intransigent governments, ...

Locking down sales figures for individual computer models can be tricky, but we've dug into the numbers to bring you the top ...

Satya Nadella has been Microsoft's CEO since 2014. The title was previously held by Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates. Look back ...

Microsoft, of course, built its business on BASIC. It supplied the original MITS Altair 8800's BASIC, and indeed The Register ...

There are many claims for the “father” of internet technology. Only one has the title of computing’s “Johnny Appleseed”. This ...