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Anti-spam laws may 'do more harm than good'
News Anti-spam proposals in Congress are not strict enough and would do more harm than good, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday. In strongly worded criticism of current legislation, Tim Muris characterised the dozen or so bills...
[August 20, 2003, 11:10]
Microsoft's plot to block Sun revealed
News E-mail messages from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and other executives, introduced during testimony last week, offer rare insight into the political maneuverings of the company. Microsoft executives apparently attempted to steer the direction of a...
[May 15, 2002, 8:28]
Our next witness: Bill Gates
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is scheduled to make his first appearance on the witness stand this week as part of the continuing antitrust trial, the company said on Friday. Gates is scheduled to appear following the conclusion of testimony from...
[April 22, 2002, 9:00]
Gates gamble pays off for Microsoft
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates redeemed himself as a witness on Monday, repeatedly rebuffing attacks made by states' attorney Steven Kuney in the latest phase of the four-year-old antitrust case. Gates took the offensive during the first major round...
[April 23, 2002, 8:14]
HP accused of bullying in recycled-cartridge suit
News Rhinotek's chairman has sharply criticised HP over a lawsuit asserting that the inkjet cartridge refiller falsely advertises its products as new. I think HP is utilising a bullying tactic," Gerald Chamales, who also is founder of the 150-employee...
[March 31, 2005, 9:35]
Gates admits remedy would've curbed Microsoft
News Although he's highly critical of the remedies proposed by nine states and the District of Columbia in his company's antitrust trial, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates acknowledged on Tuesday that some of the restrictions would have prevented the...
[April 24, 2002, 11:47]
Negroponte: Windows key to OLPC philosophy
News The OLPC's philosophy of openness is behind its decision to allow Microsoft software on the machines, according to chairman Nicholas Negroponte. While the news that Microsoft is developing a version of Windows for the so-called "$100 laptop" has...
[October 29, 2007, 8:15]
Gates offers Vista close-up
News After months of touting Vista's geekier side, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on Wednesday highlighted features designed to convince the average consumer that they need the next version of Windows. During his keynote speech at the Consumer...
[January 5, 2006, 7:50]
Gates and friends depict end of an era
News At the Consumer Electronics Show 2008, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and friends took a comical look at what life would be like in the run-up to Gates's last day. Entertainment heavyweights, such as Bono from U2, actor George Clooney and director...
[June 27, 2008, 11:36]
Gates gives away one billion dollars
News Certainly my giving will be in the same league as Ted's, and beyond," said the Microsoft chairman. In a ABC News "20/20" program interview to be broadcast Friday, Gates also said he did not take "too personally" some criticism of Microsoft's...
[January 30, 1998, 11:17]
Grove: Centrino's our No. 2 son
News The campaign behind Centrino, a group of chips designed specifically for wireless computing, is "second only to the introduction of the Pentium" in terms of importance for Intel, said company chairman Andy Grove.
[March 6, 2003, 8:15]
Compaq's Pfeiffer hints at changes to come
News Separately, Pfeiffer took time out to comment on the likely position of Digital chairman Robert Palmer, making it clear that Palmer won't become Pfeiffer's right-hand man. Pfeiffer, in London for the announcement of new notebook, desktop and server...
[January 27, 1998, 14:07]
Gates reveals where 'Milan' is headed
News But Microsoft's chairman said none of those things needs to define the product over time and we're likely to see big changes. In Bill Gates' mind, Microsoft's tabletop computer is just the beginning of where the touch-based technology can go.
[June 1, 2007, 9:54]
McNealy tees off at Symantec event
News His keynote address on the second day of the event was one of the Sun chairman's first public appearances since the changes at the helm of the Santa Clara, California, company. Scott McNealy isn't chief executive of Sun Microsystems anymore, but...
[May 10, 2006, 10:05]
Gates and Jobs share the stage
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and Apple chief executive Steve Jobs took the stage at the D5 conference Wednesday night for a rare joint public appearance. I'm in an overflow room with a half-dozen other reporters, many of whom flew to San Diego to...
[May 31, 2007, 9:53]
Gates admits IE failings, looks to an AJAX future
News Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman, delivered a keynote speech on Monday at Mix '06 in Las Vegas, the first edition of a Microsoft conference aimed at developers building online applications that combine Web and mobile access.
[March 21, 2006, 7:55]
Gates vows better security to customers
News Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said in an e-mail on Thursday that the software giant has taken great strides to secure its products, but acknowledged that the company still has far to go to achieve its goal of "Trustworthy Computing.
[January 24, 2003, 7:51]
Microsoft teases new Visual Studio.Net
News Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates offered a glimpse on Friday of future versions of the company's Visual Studio.Net development tools bundle. At a software development conference in Seattle, Gates detailed improvements planned for its Visual C++ tool...
[November 11, 2002, 8:08]
For AOL, it's Case closed
News In agreeing to step aside as AOL Time Warner chairman in May, Steve Case admitted a rare defeat in an unpredictable career that carried him from computer start-up to the top of the media establishment.
[January 13, 2003, 7:37]
Ellison, MS buy in to Apple, but Jobs stays on fence
News Some will be disappointed by this, but the bad news will be tempered by the announcement that the board is to be strengthened by new big guns -- Larry Ellison, chairman of Oracle, Bill Campbell, chairman of Intuit, and Jerry York, former chief...
[August 6, 1997, 14:41]
