Bill Gates

I say that, as someone who is familiar with the man in no sense other than his outward persona. In the past few years, when Bill Gates was stepping away from Microsoft, he allowed Ballmer to come to the fore, which I believe is the mistake of the decade (apologies to those who voted for [...]

Bill Gates, not completely absent from the Windowsphere, has stated that soon, the Windows operating system will soon be able to take advantage of the benefits of the research for Xbox, called Project Natal.
Project Natal is the name Microsoft uses for a “controller-free gaming and entertainment experience” that the company will use in the future [...]

It’s amazing how many people like the same things, yet you might otherwise not know it. I was reading an article by Paul Murphy, from ZDNet, and see that he thinks that NCIS is a great program. I do also, but I have never analyzed why. I like Mark Harmon, but I don’t really identify [...]

The announcement was made, and , as if the economy was not on everyone’s mind, there were actually those who found this startling.  It takes all kinds.
from Betanews
Microsoft net income tumbles over 30%; are layoffs ahead?
EPS comes in, coincidentally, precisely $1 below Apple’s.
For the company’s fiscal third quarter ended on March 31, Microsoft on Thursday [...]

In an article on Crunch Gear,  it is explained that the Gates Foundation, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to back cell phone banking for third world countries.
Does that seem anything like a strange priority when there are millions of people who must worry about enough food to eat, getting clean water to drink, and [...]

Last night, William H. Gates III, the chairman, and co-founder of Microsoft, was the guest of Charlie Rose on his eponymous program from PBS. The interview, lasting for the entire hour, was another glimpse into the life of one of the strangest, yet immensely successful, men in history.
Throughout the course of the interview, Gates more [...]

I learned, through an article by Robin Harris (ZDNet), that the current Microsoft Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie wishes for Microsoft to become an innovator. Chief Software Architect is the position that Mr. Gates used to occupy.
In the very first paragraph, Mr. Harris sums the situation very nicely -
Microsoft’s new Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie, [...]

Bill Gates is gone. For most, new computers with Windows XP are gone. Things with Vista are not much better than they were a year and a half ago. So, what is happening?
The Microsoft apologists are all coming out of the woodwork – it’s their time, Microsoft is not doing so well, after all, it [...]

After announcing that NBC will offer ‘Olympics on the Go’ download service for the Beijing Olympics in a few weeks, it spoils the idea for many who aren’t users of the Vista operating system or happen to have Microsoft’s Silverlight  software installed.
from Ars Technica
NBC announced two significant technology partnerships with Microsoft and Wavexpress today to [...]

The number of articles concerning the changes at Microsoft gets larger each day. with the end of this month defining the end of an era, it seems that he question of whether Ray Ozzie, the man designated to guide the ship, can bring Microsoft out of the doldrums that began with the late release of [...]

In an entry of Microsoft Subnet, on Network World, Mitchell Ashley lets out the news that the previously vaporous Windows 7 will be previewed at the Wall Street journal’s All Things Digital conference.
Then he almost immediately recants that, saying he is not sure if ‘7′ will be shown. This is the sort of ’smoke and [...]