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Gates looks back on 30 years at Microsoft

If you were to ask Bill Gates what life will be like when he stops working full time at Microsoft, he'd have to get back to you.Read more »

Ballmer Q&A: Feeling the heat at Microsoft

For a man who just got fined more than a billion dollars for antitrust violations, Steve Ballmer is feeling plenty of competitive heat. Read more »

Open standard bearers close ranks

Everyone loves open standards, but few agree on what they are. New principles lay down the law. Read more »

Interview: Bob Muglia on Longhorn

Longhorn Server will likely be Microsoft's most complex operating system ever, and Bob Muglia has little latitude for more slips. Read more »

Microsoft--forget PR, clean up the code

Have you noticed that Microsoft is on the offensive? After countless months of reading press clippings about the pathetic state of Windows security, the folks in Redmond have decided to fight back with one of their strongest weapons--public relations. Read more »

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Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates

The world's richest man on web apps, ultramobile PCs, dirt cheap PCs and the 'G' word. Read more »

The FUD war against Linux

Open-source activist Bruce Perens uncovers the SCO-Microsoft connection behind a campaign to convince users that trade secrets of Unix have been copied into Linux. Read more »

Red ring of death is closer than you think

It can seem hard to believe that a company with all the resources of Microsoft can make make a billion-dollar mistake with a small chip-design fault. Yet chip design is not an exact science and Rupert Goodwins, who has been there himself, details how it can go horribly wrong. Read more »

Is Red Hat going to be the next Microsoft?

How could a little company that provides Linux open source software hope to topple Microsoft? Could Red Hat become the next dominant (not necessarily domineering) operating systems provider? Read more »

Microsoft targets user/password morass

Microsoft is developing new security software it hopes will make Web services and its entire product lineup more appealing to big companies. Read more »

Sprucing up open source's GPL foundation

Modernisation is coming to the General Public License, a legal framework that supports a large part of the free and open-source software movements and that has received sharp criticism from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Read more »

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