Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog Dream that Bill Gates is planning to send over 800 satellites into space and set up Internet Of The Air, thus bypassing all the telephone companies. Sobering thought Number 2: that's only half Bill Gates' net worth.
[January 18, 1997, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
News Dream that Bill Gates is planning to send over 800 satellites into space and set up Internet Of The Air, thus bypassing all the telephone companies. Sobering thought Number 2: that's only half Bill Gates' net worth.
[January 18, 1997, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog When someone like Bill Gates admits happily to watching sport on YouTube, that war is over. The deal made Google money on the spot — at 2 percent of market cap, the stock swap pushed the share price up five points, and you have no idea how soiled I...
[October 13, 2006, 19:35]
Eric Raymond: How I'll Spend My Millions
News Most technology millionaires are as closed-mouthed about their wealth as Microsoft CEO Bill Gates' accountants are about his 1040 tax return. Other than that, life will continue as usual, Raymond said.
[December 13, 1999, 10:32]
Microsoft Gets Hands-on With Tablet PC
News The Tablet is the first fruit of Bill Gates' more hands-on role in Microsoft (he stepped down as chief executive in 2000 to spend more time on product development) and you can almost picture the meeting in which panicky Microsoft execs awkwardly...
[September 27, 2002, 11:23]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog For me, the most effective satire of the whole Vista farrago was the sound track of Bill Gates doing an on-stage demo of the product, cut to video footage of Apple's OS X doing exactly the same thing.
[March 24, 2006, 16:50]
2005: Apple's 1984?
Leader The launch of the Mac mini could also reignite the old hostilities between Apple chief Steve Jobs and his old nemesis Bill Gates. Unhook the ugly old PC from the life support of keyboard, mouse and display, send the corpse off for recycling, and...
[January 18, 2005, 12:50]
Saving Bletchley Park Is Crucial
Talkback Maybe Bill Gates doesn't want to support this museum because it underlines where electronic computing started i.e.here, not the U.S. I've visited twice and have been absolutely enthralled by the true stories brought to life by the excellent guides...
[May 18, 2008, 18:11]
Moore's Last Sigh
Leader The old saying has it that Gordon Moore giveth and Bill Gates taketh away: more capable computers have led to slower, bulkier and buggier software than ever before. All the way through its life, Moore's Law has been rejigged - mostly to...
[April 12, 2005, 12:00]
A Life With Windows
News Bill Gates further soured our view, not that any further souring was needed. Back then, while it was no more necessary to like Bill Gates than it is today, it would have been worthwhile for me to pay a bit more attention to what he was up to.
[November 25, 2005, 8:05]
