Microsoft Aims To 'reinvent' Itself
News Missing from the new inner circle is Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft's chief technology officer. Microsoft and Nathan Myhrvold both denied the story. Microsoft officials cautioned press and analysts listening to a conference call announcing the...
[March 30, 1999, 9:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Mr Myhrvold is on sabbatical from his post in charge of Microsoft's multi-national, multi-billion dollar R&D division (most notable output to date: a dancing paperclip) for a year. But they could do with being cyberfied for the Millennium: here...
[June 4, 1999, 18:54]
A Year Ago: Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Mr Myhrvold is on sabbatical from his post in charge of Microsoft's multi-national, multi-billion dollar R&D division (most notable output to date: a dancing paperclip) for a year. But they could do with being cyberfied for the Millennium: here...
[June 5, 2000, 7:01]
Mystery Surrounds Web Patents Acquisition
News JGR beat out seven other bidders, including two companies connected to Nathan Myhrvold, a former Microsoft executive who now runs Intellectual Ventures, a company that collects patents. The firm, where Myhrvold serves as chairman and co-founder...
[December 7, 2004, 10:00]
Paul Allen To Fund Alien Research
News Along with Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft's director of research, Allen has donated $12.5m (about £7.75m) to a group of astronomers in the San Francisco region, for the construction of the largest-ever radiotelescope to be used in the search for alien...
[August 9, 2000, 12:04]
Quotes Of The Week, June 16-20
News Microsoft's Nathan Myhrvold on the Cambridge University campus. "We've no intention of being a Pac-Man and munching up companies. Gateway's John Shepheard on the ALR buy. What happened in the States will not happen here.
[June 20, 1997, 15:38]
Microsoft's Jim Allchin Takes A 'vacation'
News The most recent of these vacations-turned-retirements occurred three weeks ago, when former Microsoft chief technology officer and 14-year Microsoft veteran Nathan Myhrvold left to pursue other interests, ranging from archaeology to cooking.
[May 23, 2000, 13:13]
HP's Double-edged IP Sword
News Nathan Myhrvold have formed companies that are buying up thousands of patents that some believe could prompt a rash of lawsuits. HP, in some ways, illustrates both sides of the debate over intellectual property.
[November 11, 2005, 14:40]
Ballmer Bio: 'Mr Engulf And Devour'
News A number of key executives, including chief technical officer Nathan Myhrvold and WebTV networks CEO and founder Steve Perlman, have left the company or taken extensive "sabbaticals" since Ballmer was put in charge of day-to-day operations.
[January 14, 2000, 10:10]
Acacia Increasing Patent Arsenal
News Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold has founded a secretive Seattle-based company called Intellectual Ventures that, according to Newsweek, has raised $350m to pursue a similar strategy. In the streaming media business, a letter from Acacia...
[December 17, 2004, 15:45]
Commerce One Patent Sale Has Google Worried
News A number of companies specialise in this practice, including Intellectual Ventures, started by former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold. The upcoming auction of dozens of key Web services patents in a California bankruptcy case has some big...
[November 25, 2004, 8:05]
Gates To Step Down From Microsoft
News Although Gates will lower his profile at Microsoft, he will likely still have a huge effect on the company, predicted Nathan Myhrvold, chief executive of Intellectual Ventures and former chief scientist at Microsoft.
[June 16, 2006, 8:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Mr Myhrvold is on sabbatical from his post in charge of Microsoft's multi-national, multi-billion dollar R&D division (most notable output to date: a dancing paperclip) for a year. But they could do with being cyberfied for the Millennium: here...
[June 4, 1999, 19:54]
A Year Ago: Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Mr Myhrvold is on sabbatical from his post in charge of Microsoft's multi-national, multi-billion dollar R&D division (most notable output to date: a dancing paperclip) for a year. But they could do with being cyberfied for the Millennium: here...
[June 5, 2000, 8:01]
Old Microsoft Execs Never Die ...
News Nathan Myhrvold, founder of Microsoft Research and former chief technical officer, is practicing French cooking skills, digging for dinosaur fossils, and investing in start-ups with a personal fortune valued around $650m (£454m) in 1999.
[February 12, 2002, 17:21]
