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Q&A: Steve Ballmer - Trust Microsoft
News The unprecedented move follows a company-wide memo that chairman Bill Gates sent to employees in January, urging Microsoft employees to write more secure software and make customer privacy a priority.
[February 6, 2002, 16:18]
Can Microsoft's Coders Crank It Up?
News In the end, the pressure to keep the code heads cranked will be on the code head of them all: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. And with everyone from Larry Ellison to the 19-year-old kid living next door with the ring in his nose gunning for Bill...
[July 12, 2000, 13:43]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Time magazine contrasts Bill Gates' courtroom performance with Bill Clinton's and concludes that whilst the President was hugely effective, the Microsoft chief left little to be desired. I have an exclusive, limited edition, ZDNet pen for all...
[November 24, 1998, 10:00]
Gates Predicts Death Of The Password
News During his keynote speech at the RSA Security conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Microsoft's chairman Bill Gates predicted the demise of the traditional password because it cannot "meet the challenge" of keeping critical information secure.
[February 25, 2004, 7:20]
Gates Sees Disruputive Changes Ahead
News Aiming to stir up the same kind of momentum as his Internet Tidal Wave memo of a decade earlier, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has penned a memo outlining the challenges Microsoft faces from a host of online competitors.
[November 9, 2005, 8:15]
Gates' Interoperability Claim 'is Nonsense'
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said in an executive email late last week that implementing open source software could be expensive due to the cost of making incompatible applications work together. Bill Gates' claim that the open source methodology...
[February 7, 2005, 12:50]
News Roundup: Xbox Is Unveiled
News With Bill Gates in Japan for the Tokyo Games Show, rumours and news about Xbox have been flying over the past week. Fri, 30th Mar Bill Gates said his new game system is on schedule for an autumn debut and will reap the benefits of Sega's new...
[March 30, 2001, 11:46]
Microsoft: More Security Challenges Lie Ahead
News And it has been nearly five years since company chairman Bill Gates sent out his "Trustworthy Computing" memo, which said the software maker was turning its focus to security. We think this is the milestone where enterprises should start the...
[February 7, 2007, 15:21]
Oracle: The New Industry Bad Boy? Pt II
News Ellison, who has been pressed into service to contain the PR fallout from "Trash-gate", now faces a more formidable challenge: convincing the industry that he's not the second coming of his old adversary, Bill Gates.
[July 6, 2000, 9:36]
Google Doesn't Worry Us, Says Factiva Chief
News I don't even think Bill Gates would say that one size would fit you all the time. The format of the site will change and so the quality of what you get and the way it'll look is dramatically improved," chairman Bill Gates told Australian...
[July 2, 2004, 15:50]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Bill Gates defended internal email discussions at Microsoft, which were being used against him in the MS Vs DoJ hearings. Capitalism at work for consumers" Bill Gates -- Daily Telegraph Gates vs DoJ will lead to tightening of corporate email use...
[November 17, 1998, 16:37]
The Hard Lessons Of Vista
News Chairman Bill Gates noted on Tuesday that as many as half of the worker-hours put into Vista have gone into testing. Gates talked on Monday of the need, for example, to update Internet Explorer more often.
[March 23, 2006, 13:10]
Gates: Business Technology Is 'lagging Behind'
News A faster pace of innovation for consumers has given individuals access to technology and communication breakthroughs, but the same advances have been slower to reach many businesses, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said in San Diego on Wednesday.
[March 10, 2005, 14:15]
Trial: Now It's Microsoft's Turn
News Chairman Bill Gates and chief executive Steve Ballmer are both on the list, but the software giant is still deciding which witnesses it will ultimately call, said sources familiar with Microsoft's legal strategy.
[April 15, 2002, 8:59]
Gates Reassures Customers Over Security
News Microsoft has made significant progress in making its software more secure, and further improvements are on the way, chairman Bill Gates assured customers in a letter Wednesday. Given human nature, evolving threat models and the increasing...
[April 1, 2004, 11:30]
Office XP Faces Hard Sell
News The software maker will unveil Office XP, the latest version of its productivity suite, during a New York event hosted by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, and at other, smaller events around the world. To rally support for Office XP, Microsoft is...
[May 31, 2001, 13:50]
Mass Office Upgrades 'unlikely'
News But the Office applications that Microsoft chairman Bill Gates will tout at a launch event in New York on Tuesday will have most of their improvements under the hood. But expanding Office's reach to back-end servers also means that installing the...
[October 21, 2003, 10:00]
Microsoft Unveils Windows Media 9
News Chairman Bill Gates formally launched the software on Wednesday evening at an extravagant party in Los Angeles. Windows Media 9, formerly code-named Corona, has been in development for nearly four years at a cost of about $500m (£320m), Gates said.
[September 5, 2002, 8:55]
Microsoft Plans Canadian Development Centre
News In separate Capitol Hill appearances, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates made a strong plea for unlimited H-1B visas, while a Google executive credited the company's success to foreigners and called for expanded ability to hire them.
[July 6, 2007, 9:42]
Oracle's Database Boast Backfires
News While the TPC could sanction the parties -- with an embarrassing news release or a fine of up to $10,000 -- one thing's a safe bet: no way is Ellison giving $1 million to Bill Gates. For its part, Microsoft says it met the terms of Ellison's...
[March 26, 1999, 10:55]
