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Comdex: Gates Unveils Tablet PC
News Even when it comes to a Bill Gates keynote, cool hardware upstages software every time with the Fall Comdex crowd. Mary Jo Foley wonders whether Bill Gates can free Microsoft from the horns of its PC legacy?
[November 13, 2000, 7:41]
One Year On, Is Microsoft 'Trustworthy'?
News A year after Bill Gates called for Microsoft to make its products more "trustworthy", executives are touting myriad initiatives as proof of the software giant's new resolve. In January 2002, chairman Bill Gates sent a memo designed to rally...
[January 17, 2003, 9:08]
.Net Server: Three Delays A Charm?
News During his Comdex keynote address on Sunday, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates revealed that the company would launch Windows .Net Server 2003 in April, marking the third delay for the server counterpart to the company's Windows XP operating system.
[November 18, 2002, 15:56]
Microsoft Teases New Visual Studio.Net
News Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates offered a glimpse on Friday of future versions of the company's Visual Studio.Net development tools bundle. At a software development conference in Seattle, Gates detailed improvements planned for its Visual C++ tool...
[November 11, 2002, 8:08]
Microsoft To Offer Peek At New Tools
News Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will offer a glimpse on Friday of future versions of the company's Visual Studio.Net development tools bundle. At a software development conference in Seattle, Gates will detail improvements planned for its Visual C++...
[November 8, 2002, 16:38]
Microsoft Lifts Curtain On Next Visual Studio
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is scheduled to give a keynote presentation on Visual Studio, speech technologies and mobile application development next Wednesday at a developer conference in San Francisco.
[March 18, 2004, 8:15]
Wanted: Evidence Of MS Security Push
News Five weeks after Bill Gates rang an alarm over security lapses in his company's software, observers are still waiting for real evidence that Microsoft has substantially refocused its priorities. The initiatives follow a mid-January memo from Gates...
[March 4, 2002, 15:26]
Microsoft Again Pushes Back .Net Server Launch
News Microsoft can use the extra time to beef up .Net Server's security features, in response to chairman Bill Gates' "Trustworthy Computing" initiative. In a mid-January email to Microsoft employees, Gates said the company must make security a top...
[March 4, 2002, 9:16]
MS Puts Coders On Bug Alert
News That prompted company chairman Bill Gates to endorse a new security initiative in a companywide memo in mid-January. In the email, Gates called for employees to put security first, urging them to help the company make its .Net infrastructure for...
[February 8, 2002, 9:36]
The Windows Vista Timeline
News In a press release dated 27 August, 2004, Bill Gates refers to 2006 as a target date for the release of Windows Longhorn. In July of 2002, Bill Gates began touting Longhorn as a significant breakthrough in the Windows operating system.
[May 19, 2006, 13:20]
Microsoft Keeps Its Open Source Enemies Close
News The companies wouldn't comment on the meeting, but Microsoft chairman Bill Gates acknowledged the company is interested in talking to open source players. We'll certainly spend time with those people to see what we have in common and what we can do...
[June 30, 2005, 17:00]
Windows Server Update Will Pre-empt Longhorn
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates first mentioned the release in an interview with CNET News.com, published on Monday. We will have a new server release that will likely come up before Longhorn," Gates said.
[March 8, 2004, 8:10]
Comdex 2001: Microsoft Preps Messaging For Business
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates alluded to the new features in his Comdex keynote speech Sunday night when he revealed the company will release Windows .Net Server Beta 3 later this month. But there is a catch: For now, at least, many of the most...
[November 13, 2001, 10:11]
Microsoft Pins Hopes On .Net Server
News But Microsoft chairman Bill Gates acknowledged just this week that, in some respects, the company's .Net plan has been slow to catch on. This week, Redmond, Washington-based software giant issued the first release candidate, or nearly final test...
[July 26, 2002, 16:14]
Microsoft Pledges £3.3bn To R&D
News Microsoft plans to increase its research and development budget by 20 percent and hire 5,000 new workers in the coming year, Chairman Bill Gates said on Thursday. Along with Longhorn will come new releases of Office, Visual Studio.Net , Exchange...
[July 26, 2002, 7:32]
So, What Is .Net Anyway?
News As what passes for the resident Microsoft zealot here at Builder.com, I had quite a few people drop by my office or e-mail to let me know about Bill Gates' admission in late July that his company may have "made a misstep" with Microsoft .Net.
[August 30, 2002, 11:54]
Microsoft Bug Fix To Improve Security
News Microsoft started taking Windows 2000 security more seriously in January, after Chairman Bill Gates distributed a company-wide email about putting security ahead of adding new features to products. Microsoft now expects to release final, or gold...
[July 17, 2002, 8:24]
Gates Says .Net On Track
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on Thursday told financial analysts that the software giant is on course to deliver key pieces of its strategy to make its software available as a Web-based service. In his speech, Gates said Microsoft is on track with...
[July 27, 2001, 10:13]
Microsoft.Net To Woo Developers In US
News At the PDC, Microsoft top brass, including chief software architect Bill Gates himself, will present to thousands of programmers the nuts and bolts of the company's pending .Net releases of its tools, operating systems and applications.
[July 11, 2000, 12:15]
Previous Punches From Sun
News Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates) Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer and Gates) Then we could just bronze Gates, turn him into a statue and stick him in front of the Commerce Department. Listen, I have never turned down a meeting with Gates or...
[April 5, 2004, 9:00]
