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- WinXP on XO laptops OK as long as Linux runs, too
- Microsoft's agreement to offer Windows XP on OLPC's XO laptop is appropriate and long overdue. It was pure hypocrasy for Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates to publicly decry the so-called "Digital Divide" while privately refusing to support the XO simply because Linux was a supported operating system. ...
- Tags: Operating System, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Gates Foundation, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft Windows, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Photos: Bill Gates shows off 'TouchWall'
- At Microsoft CEO Summit 2008, Bill Gates shows off a new multi-touch user interface technology. by Andy Smith
- Tags: Bill Gates, Photograph, Andy Smith, touch screen, Touchwall, Microsoft, Microsoft CEO Summit
- Image galleries 2008-05-14
- Gates emphasizes PC-phone connectivity in Windows 7
- Improved collaboration and connectivity between Windows PCs and cell phones is going to get a major shot in the arm with Windows 7, according to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. During a speech for members of the Windows Digital Lifestyle Consortium in Tokyo last week, Gates referred...
- Tags: Phone, Microsoft Windows 7, Mobile, PC, Cell Phone, Bill Gates, Gate, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Microsoft going it alone? Not exactly
- Trying to parse Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' every utterance in search of clues about what Microsoft is doing next is a dangeous game. (Remember the recent Windows 7 date confusion spurred by a recent Gates' utterance?) On May 6, headlines across the Web declared that Gates told...
- Tags: Facebook, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Ideas for organizing your media
- Several new projects and ideas emerged from Microsoft's TechFest 2008 to help streamline people's media intake. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi has some of the highlights from the event, including a political blog aggregator and an application that can search your music library.
- Tags: techfest 2008, microsoft, music players, search engine, translation, bill gates, seattle, redmond
- Videos 2008-03-18
- Touring Microsoft's science fair
- Walking around TechFest 2008, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie talks to News.com's Ina Fried about the latest from Redmond's labs and where the company is placing its bets these days.
- Tags: microsoft techfest 2008, redmond, seattle, bill gates, steve ballmer, ina fried, research and development
- Videos 2008-03-11
- Gates no longer the richest man thanks to Yahoo bid
- Gates no longer the richest man thanks to Yahoo bidJust provesthat most of this "wealth" is paper wealth and actually pretty meaningless.If Gates tried to cash out all his shares, MS stock would drop like a rock and he probably wouldn't get a hundred million out of it.in a few...
- Tags: Investment, Litigation, Yahoo! Inc., Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., stock
- Discussion threads 2008-03-06
- Gates no longer the richest man thanks to Yahoo bid
- The Forbes list of richest people is out and the big news is that Bill Gates is no longer the richest man. He's not even No. 2 anymore because of Wall Street's displeasure with Microsoft's bid for Yahoo. The richest folks are as follows (Techmeme, Forbes overview,...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Forbes, Folk, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Construction, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- Microsoft: Storage unification still somewhere out there
- Microsoft customers are still in search of that elusive goal: a single, unified storage system to simplify the deployment and management of Microsoft's enterprise wares. And Microsoft officials are still promising it will happen as they have for years but not offering any kind of delivery timetable. ...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint, Server, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Storage, Enterprise Software, Databases, Hardware, Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- In the mind's eye, it's now Marissa versus Monkeyboy
- Funny how the mind works. Sometimes it just makes associations whether you want it to or not. And now that I've read the feature article on Google's Marissa Mayer in San Francisco magazine, the images from that profile are etched into my mind whenever I think of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Image, Cat, Ray, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- Steve Ballmer talks heroes and innovation
- In an interview with News.com's Ina Fried the Microsoft chief executive talked about where Microsoft's new server products as well as relations with Brussels.
- Tags: microsoft, heroes, steve ballmer, bill gates, ina fried, los angeles
- Videos 2008-02-27
- The great man isn't any more
- The great man isn't any moreYou have noticed...... that Microsoft is attempting to buy Yahoo!, and not the reverse. Somehow the company Mr. Ballmer leads so enthusiastically is more successful than the company once led by two enablers.And you have also noticed, I expect, that Google continues to profit...
- Tags: Leadership, Contribution, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates, leader, great man, Google Inc., open source
- Discussion threads 2008-02-22
- The great man isn't any more
- Partly in reaction to my Sun funny, a Microsoft evangelist named Anand Iyer wrote a defense of Steve Ballmer to which another journalist quickly attached a version of my headline. Leave Steve Ballmer alone. Iyer's point: I think people have to realize that...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates, Iyer, Open Source Project, Entrepreneurship, Open Source, Leadership, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-22
- Gates: Yahoo cultural differences? What differences?
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates downplayed worries about the cultural differences between the software giant and Yahoo. After reading News.com's Ina Fried's account of her interview with Gates and watching the video. I smell a disconnect. You can watch the video for yourself, but it's hard to envision...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Corporate Communications, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Gates on free tools, Yahoo, and more.
- In an Interview with News.com's Ina Fried, Microsoft's Chairman explains why Microsoft is giving away it's developer tools to students and a glimpse at the rational behind the Yahoo bid.
- Tags: bill gates, microsoft, stanford university, yahoo, ina fried
- Videos 2008-02-19
- Gates on Microhoo: Offer very fair
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has been silent on the offer to acquire Yahoo. He has been purposely taking a back seat to CEO Steve Ballmer and Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie in lieu of his retirement from active duty in a few months. He officially exits day-to-day activities in July...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Search, Investment, Marketing Research, Finance, Marketing, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Yahoo's Jerry Yang is no Bill Gates
- Yahoo's Jerry Yang is no Bill GatesI wouldn't disagree with anything that was saidBusiness is war and in war, life is harsh.Many of us would like to think that companies are in business for altruistic reasons and indeed many founders might have such thinking... but once a company becomes public,...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Operating systems, TV network, Yahoo! Inc., Jerry Yang, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-16
- Office 14 to add more online document sharing
- Microsoft won't be turning Office 14 into a completely Web-ified productivity suite, a la Google Docs. But it's practically a given that Microsoft will add more online collaboration/sharing capabilities to the individual point products that will comprise the client-based Office 14. Microsoft execs are beginning to drop...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- Abuzz over Microsoft's Yahoo bid
- On the streets of Silicon Valley Friday, everyone from software engineers to grandmas was analyzing Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi speaks with one alum of both Microsoft and Yahoo about why he favors the deal.
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., News.com, Tools & Techniques, Management, microsoft, yahoo, kara tsuboi, internet, bill gates, silicon valley, bay area
- Videos 2008-02-01
- Steve Ballmer then and now?
- Steve Ballmer then and now?Steve Ballmer - Monkey CEOI can't think of a time when I could take Steve seriously as the CEO of Microsoft. He would rattle some rant about how .net was a platform and Java was a language. He would also rattle on about how...
- Tags: Corporate communications, video, Steve Ballmer, second video, Bill Gates, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-28
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