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Steve Jobs's career at Apple in pictures

Steve Jobs's career at Apple in pictures

...while Apple was mulling its options to replace Amelio as chief executive, Bill Gates announced that his company would invest $150m in Apple and develop... Read more

25 August, 2011 by Jonathan E Skillings
Apple and Microsoft: 10 moments of truce

Apple and Microsoft: 10 moments of truce

...the Apple fans who booed Jobs when he brought in Microsoft chairman Bill Gates via video conference to announce the Microsoft deal, Jobs said: "We... Read more

4 November, 2010 by Jason Hiner

Microsoft gears up for Novell antitrust suit

...put to the test. Some 13 years ago, a feisty, often condescending Bill Gates became the public face of a beleaguered Microsoft accused of breaking... Read more

18 October, 2011 by Charles Cooper

Gates calls Egypt's internet shutdown 'not that hard'

...Bill Gates spoke with CBS News's Katie Couric on his reaction to... Read more

2 February, 2011 by Staff

Microsoft launches Lync office comms system

...according to Chris Capossela, senior vice president of Microsoft's Office division. Bill Gates made a cameo appearance via videoconferencing to help launch Microsoft Lync... Read more

18 November, 2010 by Josh Lowensohn

VMware chief talks up 'post-PC' age

...in the late 1990s was Microsoft's third most powerful executive behind Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer and oversaw the company's rise to PC... Read more

30 August, 2011 by Jay Greene
IBM at 100: A prosperous failure

IBM at 100: A prosperous failure

...every market it used to dominate. In an unguarded moment, Microsoft's Bill Gates reportedly said he wanted to be "the IBM of software", and... Read more

17 June, 2011 by Jack Schofield

Steve Jobs: World leaders and CEOs pay tribute

...thank you for the work you make possible every day - including ours" Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda... Read more

6 October, 2011 by Nick Heath

Bill Gates testifies in Novell antitrust suit

...of Windows 95 in order to damage Novell's Perfect Office development, Bill Gates testified on Monday. The former Microsoft chief, who stepped down three... Read more

22 November, 2011

30 years on, how Bill Gates saw MS-DOS

...world, and the first issue included an interview with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, which PCMag.com has now republished on the web: MS-DOS... Read more

31 July, 2011
<endeca_term>Bill Gates</endeca_term> Twitter 1.0

Bill Gates Twitter 1.0

Bill Gates Twitter is an extension for Google Chrome. With a single click... Read more

14 October, 2010
<endeca_term>Bill Gates</endeca_term> 1.1

Bill Gates 1.1

Asktechnosys come up with great Biography application for Bill Gates.William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an... Read more

3 September, 2010

Book review: Digital Wars

In 1998, the New Yorker writer Ken Auletta, author of Googled, asked Bill Gates which of his competitors he feared most. "I fear someone in... Read more

17 April, 2012

Ozzie leaves Microsoft a New Dawn memo

Ray Ozzie, Bill Gates's replacement as Microsoft's Chief Software Architect, has posted Dawn... Read more

25 October, 2010

Ozzie to leave Microsoft: future cloudy

Ray Ozzie, Bill Gates's replacement as Microsoft's Chief Software Architect, is leaving the... Read more

19 October, 2010

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