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Gates, A Geek?
Blog A Microsoft supremo has said that Bill Gates does not help young people's perceptions of IT professionals. Speaking at a Westminster eForum event on the IT skills crisis, Stephen Uden, head of skills and economic affairs for Microsoft UK, said...
[October 26, 2007, 15:48]
Gates And Ballmer Gain Small Raises
News Chief executive Steve Ballmer and chairman Bill Gates each received $551,667 (£341,272) in pay and $313,447 (£193,904) in bonuses last year, up from $547,500 in salary and $205,810 in bonus a year ago.
[September 19, 2003, 9:10]
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 Knighted
Talkback Bill Gates' business practices have violated anti-trust laws in both Europe and the US. This is not something for which he should be honoured in any shape or form.
[March 2, 2005, 10:43]
Gates To Sell Five Million Microsoft Shares
News Gates, one of the richest people in the world, often sells shares of his company as part of a regular investment program. Registering to sell the shares does not obligate Gates to sell them. The planned sales are valued at $335.45m.
[August 3, 2001, 9:20]
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]
Gates Predicts Death Of The Password
Talkback Gates predicts the death of the password, probably as successfully as he predicted the death of IBM, the success of tablet PCs and that 640KB would be enough memory for anything. This is probably a spoiler until MS come out with their own password...
[February 25, 2004, 10:40]
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 In Space?
Blog Bill Gates is considering a possible flight into space according to the French news agency, AFP. The source of the story was apparently Gates’ former colleague, current Charles Simonyi, the most wealthy space tourist to orbit the planet earth so...
[April 12, 2007, 11:51]
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 Gives Away One Billion Dollars
News 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 business practices. Well, at age 42, I've given at this point a little over $500 million to foundations...
[January 30, 1998, 11:17]
Gates Takes A Side-swipe At Apple, Linux Security
Talkback Gates is desperate here. The several charges brought against Microsoft on its lack of proper response to various continuing security holes in its OS/apps obviously have him rattled and looking for someplace to create distraction.
[January 28, 2004, 16:11]
A Year Ago: Gates 'impressed' By Blair
News Commenting on the Prime Minister's initiative to get more PCs into UK schools, Bill Gates told ZDNet UK last night he was "impressed he'd made it such a priority for his government. Gates confirmed he had met with Prime Minister Blair during a...
[November 17, 1998, 5:36]
Gates: Rivals Tried To 'castrate' Vista
News On the day that Microsoft Vista was finally ready to ship, company chairman Bill Gates took a swipe at his rivals, accusing them of attempting to "castrate" Vista before it was shipped. Gates' comments came as he spoke to journalists in Germany...
[November 10, 2006, 11:16]
Gates Predicts Software Leaps
News At the Gartner Symposium ITExpo in San Diego, Microsoft's Bill Gates discusses how innovations such as reliable speech recognition software will succeed in the next 10 years. Click here to view this video.
[March 31, 2004, 16:40]
Gates To Testify Before Congress
News MSFT) CEO Bill Gates will indeed testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 3, a committee spokeswoman said on Friday. Gates has accepted the invitation to testify on March 3. Hatch (R-Utah) invited Gates and two other top computer...
[February 16, 1998, 9:26]
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: Win2000 'dramatically More Reliable'
News Microsoft's chairman Bill Gates predicted the long-awaited operating system Windows 2000, due to be launched on Thursday, would be "dramatically more reliable" than other company releases. Windows 2000, which cost $1bn (£610m) to develop, is the...
[February 17, 2000, 15:39]
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 Sees 'mini Bubble'
News A "mini bubble" has emerged among Internet companies, but it is not likely to reach the level of the previous dot-com boom, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said. We are back in a mini-bubble era in terms of people expecting a lot of these valuations...
[March 29, 2004, 8:20]
