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Gates' gamble: One bluff too many?
News Bill Gates has a reputation for being a sharp card player. Although Gates and his lieutenants have steadfastly maintained Microsoft has been in the right, this is the kind of distraction they don't need -- especially at a juncture in the computer...
[April 5, 2000, 8:41]
Gates hints at Microsoft version of iTunes
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said his company is exploring ways to develop a music download service similar to Apple Computer's iTunes that would tie into the software giant's multimedia applications.
[July 28, 2003, 12:02]
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]
Gates: Restricting IP rights is tantamount to communism
Talkback The world Mr Gates wants to see has far more in common with communism. What he is proposing will ultimately lead to no pressure to compete on quality, value or innovation. Once you own the IP or patent, then you don't need to lift another finger to...
[January 7, 2005, 10:14]
Gates contradicts trial witness in new book
News 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 Microsoft tracks important sales figures.
[March 17, 1999, 16:29]
NT 5.0 to ship first half of 1998 - Gates
News Microsoft chairman and CEO Bill Gates said yesterday he is "pretty confident" Windows NT 5.0 will ship in the first half of 1998. Gates made the remarks in a US television interview. The firm recently pushed back the previous late-1997 planned ship...
[March 20, 1997, 9:11]
Gates: $1b for NT development this year
News During an unusual question-and-answer session, Gates discussed the next version of NT and a host of other topics ranging from Java to security to network computers. NT 5.0 is in the hands of some developers, and beta testing should begin in the...
[June 3, 1997, 15:42]
Gates takes a side-swipe at Apple, Linux security
Talkback Jealous of Gates? It takes a small mind, indeed, to think that jealousy is the prime motive for all the animosity Gates and MSFT have garnered over the years. Grow up, child.
[January 27, 2004, 16:30]
Gates offers Vista close-up
News Gates began his speech by noting his recent appearance, along with his wife, Melinda, and U2's Bono as Time magazine's "Persons of the Bill Gates on Wednesday highlighted features designed to convince the average consumer that they need the next...
[January 5, 2006, 7:50]
Gates still has unfinished business
News Bill Gates has not yet finished his work at Microsoft. And, as for these new means of interacting with computers, Gates insists they are underappreciated, not unimportant. But, as Gates prepares to shift to part-time work at Microsoft next year...
[October 18, 2007, 18:30]
Gates issues anti-spam call to arms
News Microsoft ratcheted up the rhetoric in its war against spam on Tuesday, with chairman Bill Gates calling for government and corporate cooperation to stem the tide of junk email. Spam is so significant a problem that it threatens to undo much of the...
[June 25, 2003, 8:23]
A Year Ago: Gates: MS won't be broken
News Microsoft won't break up, says Bill Gates Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said in an interview aired on Friday he does not expect the government's landmark antitrust suit against his company to lead to its breakup.
[January 15, 2001, 6:01]
Gates looks beyond IE 5 release
News CEO Bill Gates used Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5.0 launch more to expound on his views of the central importance of the Internet to Microsoft than to highlight the updated browser's latest and greatest features.
[March 19, 1999, 9:05]
Seybold: Gates woos publishers
News "If we had to do it all over again, there are things we would do better," Gates told the audience here at the Seybold San Francisco Publishing `97 Conference today. But Gates said Microsoft's recent $150 million investment in Apple would ensure...
[October 2, 1997, 12:44]
Gates keynote: Xbox unveiled
News Microsoft's entry into the video game business will no doubt inspire a number of marketing gimmicks, but it will be hard to top Saturday's -- Bill Gates sharing a stage with professional wrestler "The Rock".
[January 8, 2001, 8:39]
Gates: Orwell was wrong about Big Brother
News On the 100th anniversary of George Orwell's birth, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said the author of Nineteen Eighty-four was only partially correct and predicted that technology will help preserve privacy rights.
[June 26, 2003, 8:10]
Gates: Restricting IP rights is tantamount to communism
Talkback I think that Gates is unwanted and unneeded in modern computing. And moving back to the monopolies debate. So when people say Firefox is being downloaded onto people's systems, that's true, but IE is also on those systems.
[January 7, 2005, 12:35]
Gates's aid for Blair IT education plan remains hazy
News Reports over the weekend suggested that Gates will help the UK premier in an ambitious plan to install PCs and software into British schools and provide teacher training, free Internet access and subsidised telephone bills.
[October 6, 1997, 12:13]
Gates in bid for football rights
News Bill Gates is to go head to head with Rupert Murdoch in an effort to gain television rights for premier league football, it is reported. English Football Association commercial director Phil Carling told the Singapore newspaper Gates and NTL were...
[September 20, 1999, 9:22]
Gates looks to life beyond Microsoft
Talkback Bill Gates to become Microsoft Lobbyist and clandestine salesman. Throwing a few million bread crumbs on the water only chums the suckers.
[June 18, 2006, 17:25]
