Microsoft was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen and until 1979, it was located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 33 years later, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is ready to step down from his day-to-day role with the company he co-founded. Tomorrow, June 27, 2008 is Gates' last day at Microsoft. In honor of this occasion, the Redmond giant recreated the Iconic Albuquerque photo featuring eleven of the twelve employees that the company had at that time. The images included with this article bear testimony over how time has passed over the people that virtually gave birth to Microsoft. The original photo dates back all the way to 1978... [read more >>] Microsoft managed to include a consistent collection of imagery into Windows Vista, but it failed to come even close to satisfying the entire spectrum of user preferences and, moreover, it went for quality over quantity. In this regard, the default Vistas which ship with the operating system, suffer only because of their low number. Well, users in search of similar photographic artwork for the Vista backgrounds around the word can tap an excellent resource of no less than 135 extra Vistas made available by Mike Swanson, an extremely talented Microsoft Technical Evangelist with the Developer and Platform Evangelism organization, and not that... [read more >>] In its race to become the runner-up on the search engine and online advertising markets, Microsoft is about to give Google a little something to chew on. The Redmond company is looking to buy Yahoo for no less the $44.6 billion. Microsoft has just announced the proposed acquisition of Yahoo for $31 per share. According to current estimates, the transaction is valued at no less than $44.6 billion and Microsoft is to offer both cash and stock. Yahoo has been increasingly losing its position on the search engine market, as well as its audience eroded by social networks. The latest financial results posted by the Sunnyvale Internet giant featur... [read more >>] Right, before you ask... the sick-looking Wolverine in the adjacent image is in fact Bill Gates... Well, it was bound to happen, and the fact of the matter is that it will happen in 2008. More precisely after June 2008, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will completely retire from his day-to-day role with the Redmond company. Gates has been in a two-year transition period, since June 2006 , as he passed his responsibilities over to Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Craig Mundie, and Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie. While the day when Gates will actually leave Microsoft is still half a year away, his transition is in its final stages, and... [read more >>] | 
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