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Gates: Microsoft will keep Google honest
While Google has grabbed an early lead in search and Internet advertising, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates pledged on Wednesday that his company would "keep them honest." Read more »
Gates stepping down from full-time Microsoft role
Bill Gates is transitioning out of his full-time role at Microsoft, the software giant that's been under pressure due to a sagging stock price, competition from Google and nagging delays in the Vista operating system. Read more »
Microsoft answering Google's wake-up call?
Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie doesn't necessarily think Google has all the answers, but he does credit the company for opening Microsoft's eyes. Read more »
Microsoft in 'trouble' as Bill Gates leaves
A Harvard University dropout who ushered in the home computer age and made billions of dollars along the way will have his last official day of work at Microsoft on 27 June. Read more »
Gates looks back on 30 years at Microsoft
If you were to ask Bill Gates what life will be like when he stops working full time at Microsoft, he'd have to get back to you.Read more »
Tech greats bid farewell to Gates
As Bill Gates steps down from full-time work at Microsoft, well-wishing cheers and not-so-nice jeers are echoing from Silicon Valley. Read more »
Gates explains why Microsoft needs Yahoo
For a man a few months away from leaving his job, Bill Gates has a lot on his mind. Read more »
Gates talks about the future before farewell
For years, Bill Gates has been trumpeting software's ascent from the lowly PC to everything from mobile phones to home entertainment. In this interview before his farewell speech, Gates talks about competitors, the future of DVD, and why all of those seamless connections between digital devices exist only in keynote speeches. Read more »
Apple's Jobs more powerful than Gates
Apple co-founder and chief executive Steve Jobs has topped a list of the 25 most powerful business people in the world. Read more »
Bill Gates: We're not looking for another Yahoo
With its multibillion-dollar Yahoo merger bid yanked from the table, the Microsoft chairman said at a Tokyo press conference on Wednesday that the software giant has no immediate plans to jump on another deal. Read more »
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Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates
The world's richest man on web apps, ultramobile PCs, dirt cheap PCs and the 'G' word. Read more »
Google vs. Microsoft
At the 2008 Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, David Mitchell Smith, vice president and Gartner fellow gave a presentation titled "Google vs. Microsoft", discussing the seeming battle between the two companies. Read more »
The truth behind Ballmer's revision of history
While speaking in Moscow, Microsoft CEO and Yahoo suitor Steve Ballmer said, "Yahoo was never the strategy we were pursuing, it was a way to accelerate our online advertising business... We will spend money on some acquisitions. You can do a whole lot of things with $50 billion." Read more »
Wooing interns to Silicon Valley
Students working at companies like Google enjoy lots of perks and hands-on training. But a stint at Microsoft gets you a date with Bill Gates. Read more »
Five ways Microsoft could change after Gates
Bill Gates has left the building and the question on many people's lips is: will Microsoft change as a result? What influence will Steve Ballmer have and how will the company's strategy alter without Gates? Read more »
Web 2.0 meets the enterprise
Long set up like a gated community, the enterprise software industry is quickly gaining a populist streak. Read more »
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Sports, Gates and Gears -- Club Builder
This week on Club Builder: Steve Ballmer gives a teary goodbye to Bill Gates, Mark Taylor moves into IT endorsements and we ask some Google Gears questions. Read more »
Gates' tearful good-bye
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates says farewell to company employees at a town hall meeting Friday in Redmond, Washington. Gates is stepping down from full-time work to focus on his philanthropic efforts. Read more »
Gates vs Woz Deathmatch -- Club Builder
Google says AFL is harmful, Ballmer talks about "stuff" and you decide whether cheap computers help the world's poor in this week's Club Builder. Read more »
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XO to run XP
-- When Bill Gates says that everything in the world should be a computer, what he means is that everything in the world should be running Windows. Read more »
Perils of outsourcing
-- This edition of the Weekly Roundup looks at what happens when outsourcing companies are robbed, there's more Google news than one can poke a stick at, Samba has a new version and we see what endorsement Mark Taylor has signed on for. Read more »
2008 -- where 2006 exploits still rule
-- So the question is: who is running their SQL servers on systems unpatched since 2006 and/or not installing service packs?
The answer is clearly enough people to warrant continued exploitation. Read more »
Microsoft investigating Gervais leak
-- According to a BBC report Microsoft is investigating how and why internal training videos made by
comedian Ricky Gervais has surfaced on YouTube and Google Video. Read more »
How Microsoft beat Linux in China and what it means for freedom, justice, and the price of software
-- Thanks to some major concessions on source code and a precipitous price drop, the Chinese government has now thoroughly embraced Windows and Office, what does this mean for the world? Read more »
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The punching and counterpunching continued in the ongoing web browser development bout. Each time one browser closes a feature gap, a new feature appears in one of the others -- how we ever put up with the years of browser stagnation, I'll never know. Read more »
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Since its release in May last year, Gears has supported only Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. With the addition of Safari into the Gears fold, it closes the loop of major browsers to support Gears Read more »
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MyPerfect.com.au has potentialVictorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first. Read more »
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Microsoft slams Google on privacy
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Gosling: How Java handles multi-core
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Club Builder: Seinfeld, Wiimotes and Woz
On this episode of Club Builder: Jerry Seinfeld is the new face of Vista, we learn how to make a cheap whiteboard, and Woz talks about Steve Jobs.
