Overall, we found the AI-generated lesson plans to be decidedly boring, traditional and uninspiring. If civics teachers used these AI-generated lesson plans as is, students would miss out on active, ...

There are so many cool things you can do with ChatGPT, including writing music, debugging code, preparing an itinerary, and whatnot. It can also write essays on any topic you throw at it. And since ...

Word will save new documents to the cloud by default. AutoSave will also be enabled by default. You can turn off these options if you prefer to save your files locally. Microsoft has long been pushing ...

Microsoft has launched AI agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The agents are available for business and individual subscribers. Now accessible on the web, the agents will expand to the desktop.

Late last week, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered early personal computers like the Commodore PET, VIC-20, ...

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit series, NES, and Atari 2600. Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...

An overriding memory for those who used 8-bit machines back in the day was of using BASIC to program them. Without a disk-based operating system as we would know it today, these systems invariably ...

Microsoft announced that it has open sourced the source code for 6502 BASIC, one of first ports of its original BASIC. 6502 BASIC was written by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Ric Weiland in 1976 ...