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Interview with Bill Gates

This week Microsoft have released a host of announcements revolved around Longhorn, Whidbey and the future of Web services. Bill Gates sheds some light on the future of their platforms in this interview. 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 »

Windows 7 goes beyond keyboard and mouse

Alternate inputs methods like gestures, speech and handwriting recognition are set to appear in the next version of Windows. Read more »

Microsoft, OLPC tie the knot after virility test

The One Laptop Per Child project and Microsoft announced Thursday that indeed the XO laptop will be available in both Linux and Windows varieties. The companies plan to sell a Windows-powered XO in five or six countries starting next month, with a broader release in August or September. Read more »

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 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 »

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 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 »

Too many chefs in Microsoft kitchen?

With Bill Gates shifting from his role as chief software architect, Microsoft plans to make itself less of a one man show. But is its new structure a recipe for disaster? Read more »

Interview: Bob Muglia on Longhorn

Longhorn Server will likely be Microsoft's most complex operating system ever, and Bob Muglia has little latitude for more slips. 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 »

Interview: Simplifying Web app design

Following the Web Directions South UX conference in Melbourne, we interviewed Robert Hoekman Jr in an email on his presentation -- "Essential elements of great Web application design". Read more »

Developer Interview: Larry Constantine

Builder Australia recently caught up with software design pioneer Larry Constantine to talk about usability and UI design in today's software. Read more »

Tim Huckaby on TechEd 2003

Tim Huckaby, CEO of InterKnowlogy, MSDN regional director of the year and guest speaker at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Brisbane talks to Builder AU on this years event and life as a CEO on the road. 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 »

Longhorn beta unlikely this year

Microsoft's efforts to bolster security in Windows XP will likely delay the release of a widespread test version of its forthcoming operating system until next year. Read more »

Sprucing up open source's GPL foundation

Modernisation is coming to the General Public License, a legal framework that supports a large part of the free and open-source software movements and that has received sharp criticism from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Read more »

Is Red Hat going to be the next Microsoft?

How could a little company that provides Linux open source software hope to topple Microsoft? Could Red Hat become the next dominant (not necessarily domineering) operating systems provider? Read more »

Evaluate the hidden enterprise design tasks before committing to an API

Here are the reasons why the right API choice can make complex enterprise application development run more smoothly. Read more »

Proprietary vs. open source? Take the best of both codes

The Microsoft vs. Linux confrontation is too often seen as a battle for the hearts and minds of this industry. From a corporate IT perspective, each side has legitimate claims and products to offer. It's not an either-or situation; it's about the price and service for goods rendered. The enterprise will be a hybrid world that continues to integrate both proprietary and open source code for a long time to come. Read more »

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In this Super Techies interview, software veteran Mitch Kapor talks with ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about his career as a tech entrepreneur. Kapor discusses his early work at Lotus Development, creating the most ubiquitous business tool of its time; sparring with tech titans Bill Gates and Steve Jobs;... Read more »

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Microsoft says "open sesame"

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- While you may have been out last night watching the latest Rambo adventure with Sly Stallone making war for war's sake, Microsoft was busy declaring a truce with the open source community. Read more »

Windows XP's last hurrah

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The mere fact that Microsoft will stop widespread sale of Windows XP at the end of the day has been a topic here and elsewhere for months. The most immediate question is, with Windows XP moving off the stage, just where is Windows Vista? Read more »

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