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]
Gates Reassures Businesses
News After a long week, and very little weekend, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates arrived in Texas for the Convergence 2006 trade show to offer an update on the software maker's least well-known unit, Microsoft Business Solutions.
[March 29, 2006, 14:55]
The Hard Lessons Of Vista
News Chairman Bill Gates noted on Tuesday that as many as half of the worker-hours put into Vista have gone into testing. We are very backwards-compatible people," Gates said at an Office developer conference this week.
[March 23, 2006, 13:10]
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]
Apple Mac OS X On X86: A First Test
Talkback Ohh sure, you'd love that, BILL GATES. New Intel Apple macs (iBook, Powerbooks, iMacs, Mac minis etc.need* to support dual boot to Windows XP/Vista. Yeah, that would explain why Windows Vista Beta 1 picked up my Soundblaster 16 on the ISA slot (I...
[November 11, 2005, 16:36]
Bill Gates Talks Vista And Linux
News Bill Gates is pretty confident that when he spots an emerging technology, it will emerge. In [The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's] global health program, we're dealing with the fact that the people who want the malaria medicine aren't able to...
[November 20, 2006, 12:48]
Seeking Microsoft's Next Billion Users
News Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer got Microsoft its first billion customers. When Bill Gates announced the Unlimited Potential effort back in April in Beijing, he said that we'd like to see the first billion people get benefits from technology by the...
[October 16, 2007, 12:17]
Microsoft COO: Standing Firm On Vista
News I am fortunate to be one of few people who have had the opportunity to work for two of the most successful entrepreneurs of our time: [Wal-Mart founder] Sam Walton and [Microsoft chairman] Bill Gates.
[May 27, 2008, 11:26]
Greens: Vista Means More Dead PCs
News The business version of Vista was released on 30 November, 2006, but the consumer launch is set to happen on Tuesday with a special guest appearance in London by Bill Gates. Windows Vista-Capable PCs will be able to run at least the core...
[January 29, 2007, 16:27]
