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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]
Microsoft Developers Conference: Gates gives his team a B- for strategy
News Speaking via a satellite link to the Professional Developers Conference in Long Beach, California yesterday, Gates said Microsoft's execution of its Information At Your Fingertips strategy merited only a B-.
[November 6, 1996, 9:01]
Gates talks education, Chrome and Project Natal
News It has been a year since Bill Gates left full-time work at Microsoft, but he has found plenty to keep him busy. In between trying to eradicate polio, tame malaria and fix the US education system, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has managed to fulfill...
[July 16, 2009, 15:39]
Gates: open source lacks interoperability
Talkback Because Gates loves interoperability! Is this the same company that kept certain Windows APIs secret so that their Office suite would work much better than anyone else's? The one that broke Java compatibility in their Java VM and got sued by Sun?
[February 7, 2005, 12:16]
Gates' interoperability claim 'is nonsense'
Talkback I wish Gates would speak plain English. Mabon Dane
[February 7, 2005, 14:07]
Q&A: Gates beefs up Longhorn vision
News Even after all his triumphs, Bill Gates is still a gambling man. Gates says Longhorn, which is expected to be released in 2006, will spawn an array of new applications not possible with previous generations of Windows while making entire...
[October 29, 2003, 9:45]
Gates outlines 'digital media revolution'
News During his keynote address at the Streaming Media West Conference in San Jose Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates outlined the coming "digital media revolution". Calling the use of digital audio and video "the next wave" of the Internet, Gates...
[December 8, 1999, 9:53]
Gates takes a side-swipe at Apple, Linux security
Talkback Windows is fundamentally flawed code and Gates knows this. If he wants to fix it, he'll do what Apple did, put a Windows GUI on a stable (Unix or Linux) system.
[January 27, 2004, 22:05]
Comdex Fall '98: Gates says Microsoft innovates
News Gates took the covers off ClearType, a Microsoft Research Group-developed technology designed to make fonts easier to read on LCD, and to some extent, CRT displays. Gates claimed during his presentation that he gets to see major breakthoughs at...
[November 16, 1998, 10:24]
Gates: We'll keep Google honest
News 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". Speaking to a crowd of MSN's largest advertisers, Gates said Microsoft would...
[May 4, 2006, 8:55]
Gates announces Microsoft's plan to 'jump in' to stop spyware
News Microsoft plans to offer its own anti-spyware software, Chairman Bill Gates said Friday. Gates said Microsoft will offer software to detect malicious applications and that the company will keep it up-to-date on an ongoing basis.
[October 4, 2004, 9:30]
A Year Ago: Gates contradicts trial witness in new book
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, writing in an upcoming book about the benefits of technology for business, appears to directly contradict a key witness for his company at its antitrust trial when he describes how the company tracks important sales...
[March 17, 2000, 6:36]
Gates' interoperability claim 'is nonsense'
Talkback Maybe he can't snow the analysts, but you bet the pimply-faced IT geeks will parrot anything Gates says to hold on to their Windows-unreliability-based job security.
[February 7, 2005, 17:22]
Gates: Office 2007 will enable a new class of application
News The next version of Microsoft Office will be "dramatically better" as a platform for creating applications, according to Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect. He announced the features that developers can expect to see in...
[March 22, 2006, 17:45]
Gates' interoperability claim 'is nonsense'
Talkback Gates claim is true that microsoft is interoperable, that is with spyware and viruses
[February 8, 2005, 8:20]
Gates announces push into unified comms
News On Tuesday, Bill Gates took the stage in San Francisco to announce Microsoft's new line of software aimed at unifying voicemail, email and business meeting technology.
[October 17, 2007, 17:06]
Gates: open source lacks interoperability
Talkback It seems Mr Gates is trying to redefine the word "interoperability".
[February 8, 2005, 14:01]
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]
1 in 4 users will have compatibility problems - Gates
News In an interview on CNBC television Thursday evening, Bill Gates conceded there will be some compatibility problems for a staggering one in four users who upgrade from NT to Windows 2000. I think it's fair to say that one in four customers may have...
[February 18, 2000, 9:03]
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]
