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Gates explains why Microsoft needs Yahoo

For a man a few months away from leaving his job, Bill Gates has a lot on his mind. Read more »

Microsoft in 'trouble' as Bill Gates leaves

A Harvard University dropout who ushered in the home computer age and made billions of dollars along the way will have his last official day of work at Microsoft on 27 June. Read more »

Gates: Microsoft will keep Google honest

While Google has grabbed an early lead in search and Internet advertising, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates pledged on Wednesday that his company would "keep them honest." Read more »

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 »

Gates: Privacy a 'challenge' as software advances

As software gets more powerful, privacy issues pose an "interesting software challenge," says Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Read more »

Seinfeld and Gates hit the road for Vista

Those left scratching their heads after Microsoft's first new ad may find themselves just as itchy after the follow-up spot. Read more »

Gates: Every surface to be a computer

It's one step removed from the Midas approach, but Bill Gates wants to turn nearly everything we touch into a computer. Read more »

Tech greats bid farewell to Gates

As Bill Gates steps down from full-time work at Microsoft, well-wishing cheers and not-so-nice jeers are echoing from Silicon Valley. Read more »

Romania's 'pirate' IT industry welcomes Gates

Unlicensed software went a long way towards helping Romania build a thriving IT economy, according to the country's president, Traian Basescu, who chose Bill Gates' opening of Microsoft's global technology centre in Bucharest to admit the fact. Read more »

Yahoo bid knocks Bill Gates from global rich list

Microsoft's unsolicited US$44.6 billion bid to take over Yahoo has helped push Bill Gates off his perch atop Forbes' rich-list, ending his unbroken 13-year run as the world's richest human. 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 »

Five ways Microsoft could change after Gates

Bill Gates has left the building and the question on many people's lips is: will Microsoft change as a result? What influence will Steve Ballmer have and how will the company's strategy alter without Gates? Read more »

Google vs. Microsoft

At the 2008 Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, David Mitchell Smith, vice president and Gartner fellow gave a presentation titled "Google vs. Microsoft", discussing the seeming battle between the two companies. Read more »

Ecosystem breaking from Microsoft's grip?

Microsoft got where it is today through its influence over manufacturers. It no longer has the control it once enjoyed. Read more »

The truth behind Ballmer's revision of history

While speaking in Moscow, Microsoft CEO and Yahoo suitor Steve Ballmer said, "Yahoo was never the strategy we were pursuing, it was a way to accelerate our online advertising business... We will spend money on some acquisitions. You can do a whole lot of things with $50 billion." 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 »

Wooing interns to Silicon Valley

Students working at companies like Google enjoy lots of perks and hands-on training. But a stint at Microsoft gets you a date with Bill Gates. Read more »

Open source closes in on Microsoft

Microsoft has changed its tune toward open-source software--from denouncing it as a "cancer" that stifled innovation to "loving" the concept of shared source. 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 »

Beta hack rattles Microsoft

The software giant acknowledges that a hacker broke into its Windows beta testing network and had access to yet-unreleased software. Read more »

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Gates Demonstrates Touch Wall

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates demonstrates Touch Wall, a touch-based "white board" interface, at Microsoft CEO Summit 2008 Read more »

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Bill Gates' last day

At CES 2008, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates and some of his closest friends debuted a comical look at what life would be like as Bill's last day approaches. Many of entertainment's biggest heavyweights, such as Bono from U2, actor George Clooney, and director Steven Spielberg, got some laughs... Read more »

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Bill Gates' greatest hits and misses

June 30 marks Gates' last official day of work at Microsoft. While the software giant's founder will continue on as chairman, he will no longer be a full-time employee. ZDNet's editor in chief, Larry Dignan, rates Gates' many conference keynotes and product launches, separating the successful from those that missed... Read more »

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Jackalopes,Chrome and Bloat -- Club Builder

Any other name would be better than Ubuntu's latest. Club Builder this week examines some alternative names, looks over Google Chrome's heritage, and a new Seinfeld ad for Microsoft debuts. Read more »

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Ballmer talks about Microsoft's post-Gates plan

At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke to Gartner research analysts about filling the gap and sharing the leadership role with top executives after chairman Bill Gates transitions away from his day-to-day duties at the software maker next year. Read more »

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Gates: Everything will be a computer

In the coming years, the conference table will be a computer, the whiteboard will be a computer, says Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Read more »

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Gates' tearful good-bye

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates says farewell to company employees at a town hall meeting Friday in Redmond, Washington. Gates is stepping down from full-time work to focus on his philanthropic efforts. Read more »

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Gates sees software spreading

Microsoft Chairman Bill gates sat down with News.com's Ina Fried to talk about how Microsoft can outflank rivals as software moves to the phone, TV and other devices. Read more »

Blog (15)

VMware shows how not to do it

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- As a developer there will be a time when you ship a bug -- be it a stub that you left in, or a flaming, crashtastic segfault. The next time this happens and your bosses come baying for blood, point them in the direction of VMware, who this week gave the developer world a great example of how to ship a showstopper bug. Read more »

Screw-ups, Mobile Linux shakeup and kthxbai Bill

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The Roundup looks at where Sun went wrong with open source, what is happening in the Mobile Linux world and look at the departure of Bill Gates from full time work duties. Read more »

Competition: Gates vs Woz Deathmatch

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Tell us who you think would win in a deathmatch between Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak, and go in the running to pick up some free gear. Read more »

XO to run XP

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- When Bill Gates says that everything in the world should be a computer, what he means is that everything in the world should be running Windows. Read more »

Microsoft's Surface goes to Vegas

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This might not be what Bill Gates originally envisioned with his "information at your fingertips" concept, but in Las Vegas, the Rio hotel will unveil a new Surface computer application called Flirt, that will let bar patrons "interact" with each other through video cameras and text messages. Read more »

Perils of outsourcing

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This edition of the Weekly Roundup looks at what happens when outsourcing companies are robbed, there's more Google news than one can poke a stick at, Samba has a new version and we see what endorsement Mark Taylor has signed on for. Read more »

How Microsoft beat Linux in China and what it means for freedom, justice, and the price of software

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Thanks to some major concessions on source code and a precipitous price drop, the Chinese government has now thoroughly embraced Windows and Office, what does this mean for the world? Read more »

Windows XP's last hurrah

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The mere fact that Microsoft will stop widespread sale of Windows XP at the end of the day has been a topic here and elsewhere for months. The most immediate question is, with Windows XP moving off the stage, just where is Windows Vista? Read more »

Microsoft says "open sesame"

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- While you may have been out last night watching the latest Rambo adventure with Sly Stallone making war for war's sake, Microsoft was busy declaring a truce with the open source community. Read more »

Live Aussie Vista Launch

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Live Blogging from the Australian launch of Microsoft's Windows Vista and Office 2007 at the MCA in Sydney. Read more »

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