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| $60 Billion in Revenue for Bill Gates' Last Year at Microsoft |  | June 30, 2008 marked the last day of Bill Gates as a full-time Chairman of Microsoft and, at the same time, the end of the company's 2008 fiscal year. On July 17, the Redmond giant announced revenue of over $60.42 billion, representing a jump of 18% from the past FY. In just the fourth fiscal quarter of 2008, the company accounted for total revenue of $15.84 billion and a growth of 18% over Q4 2007. Microsoft touted what it ... [read more >>] | | 18 July 2008, 05:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Introducing the Bill Gates Fly |  | Nobody is disputing the fact that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has left the company he co-founded in order to become a busy philanthropic bee. But, at the same time, Gates has more in common with insects than this simple simile designed to illustrate his commitment as a full-time Chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Throughout the years, the Bill Gates brand has grown to become synonymous with Microsoft, and just as universa ... [read more >>] | | 14 July 2008, 11:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Bill Gates: Windows 7 - Amazing Things |  | Since Bill Gates has officially finished his transition out of the day-to-day role as Microsoft Chairman with the Redmond company, he won't be around full time when Windows 7 comes out, but this aspect has failed to stop him from revealing that the Windows team is doing amazing things with the successor of Windows Vista. Earlier this year, Gates indicated that Windows 7 would drop in 2009, a date confirmed somewhat by Micros ... [read more >>] | | 01 July 2008, 07:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Bill Gates Still "Pretty Hardcore" |  | Bill Gates has officially stepped into the next phase of his life, one dedicated almost exclusively to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. After doing the same job for over 30 years, Gates admitted that the new direction would not be easy; however, he stated that he is ready for the change. Microsoft’s co-founder and now part-time Chairman also added that moving on and focusing on philanthropy does not mean that he will lose h ... [read more >>] | | 30 June 2008, 04:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Ladies and Gentlemen, Bill Gates Has Left the Building |  | Yesterday, June 27, 2008 was a day that made it into history simply because it marked the transition of Bill Gates out of his day-to-day role at Microsoft, a company founded together with Paul Allen in 1975. As of June 28, Microsoft is officially sans Bill Gates, now 52 years old and committed to focusing almost exclusively on philanthropic work via the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. But at the same time June 28 is synonymous with Micr ... [read more >>] | | 28 June 2008, 07:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| This Is It, Bill Gates' Last Day at Microsoft Is Here |  | Today, June 27, 2008, Microsoft is officially entering its post-Bill Gates era. Microsoft A.B. (after Bill) will be led by Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer; Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect and Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer. This morning, approximately 1,000 Microsoft employees were accompanying Gates on the start of his last day in his day-to-day role with the company he co-founded in Redmond. More are watchin ... [read more >>] | | 27 June 2008, 13:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Return of the Original Microsoft Geek Icons, 30 Years Later |  | 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 tha ... [read more >>] | | 26 June 2008, 09:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Bill Gates: I Have Achieved the Ideal of What I Wanted Microsoft to Become |  | On June 27, 2008 Bill Gates will be moving ahead and wrap up the transition out of his day to day role with the software giant he co-founded. This proves to be the ripe context for the Microsoft Chairman to deliver a retrospective view over his life. In the video embedded at the bottom of this article, Bill Gates looks back at the decisive moments in his life related to Microsoft. It is the end of an era for Gates, one which coincides with ... [read more >>] | | 24 June 2008, 09:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Bill Gates: The Day Is Coming |  | Microsoft Co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates announced in mid-2007 that June 27, 2008 would be his last day at Microsoft and that he would enter a two year transition period out of his day-to-day responsibilities. Well, the two years are up and the Day is approaching at fast pace, now just a week away. Gates has already given up his title of Chief Executive Officer in favor of Steve Ballmer and only had to pass the role of Chief Software A ... [read more >>] | | 23 June 2008, 13:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Jobs Just behind Gates in the Battle for Web 2.0 Mogul King |  | Radar Online's Fame-O-Meter says that Steve Jobs is almost as popular as Bill Gates, as a Web 2.0 mogul. Recent concerns about Jobs' health have undoubtedly added to his popularity in recent weeks, the publication believes.
"With the announcement o ... [read more >>] | | 18 June 2008, 03:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Senior VP Honored for Contributions to UNIX, OS X and Windows |  | Rick Rashid is a Microsoft top executive who has contributed not only to the Windows operating system, but also to platforms such as UNIX and Mac OS X. The Redmond company announced that Rashid was honored with the Piore Award from the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) Emanuel R. Piore Foundation, for his work on modern operating systems, as well as for his contributions in industrial research. Microsoft Chairman Bil ... [read more >>] | | 11 June 2008, 12:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows 7 Is Just the Beginning for Microsoft |  | As far as Microsoft is concerned, Windows 7 is just the beginning. Not a new beginning for Windows, mind you, but the debut of a revolution in human - computer interaction. At Tech Ed 2008, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates indicated that he is betting big on natural user interfaces. "Now one of the big changes coming that I think is most underestimated is the change in interaction," he stated. Not by coincidence, the Redmond company ... [read more >>] | | 06 June 2008, 10:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Showcases Steve Ballmer Egg-Proof Robot |  | Say what you will about Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer, but the truth is that the CEO managed to provide historical performances on stage along his 28 years with Microsoft. The continuous object of ridicule and mockery, some of those performances are undoubtedly part of popular culture, and at Microsoft Tech Ed 2008, Chairman Bill Gates and Microsoft's leader of the robotics group, Tandy Trower, offered yet another Ba ... [read more >>] | | 04 June 2008, 07:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Promises Great New Features for IE8 Beta 2, but Disappoints |  | Microsoft Tech Ed 2008 was the stage where Chairman Bill Gates announced that Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 would be made available for the general public in August. As Beta 1 was a build focused almost exclusively on web content developers and designers, the Redmond giant indicated from early March that Beta 2 would be a consumer-oriented release. In this context, Tony Chor, IE Group Program Manager promised that Internet Explorer ... [read more >>] | | 04 June 2008, 03:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Beta 2 Drops this August |  | Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates confirmed, at the company's Tech Ed North America 2008 Developers conference on June 3, that the next development milestone of Internet Explorer 8 is approximately a couple of months away. IE8 Beta 2 will be made available for download in August 2008, and will take Microsoft’s next iteration of the IE browser one step closer to the general release. Gates' announcement is the first clear ind ... [read more >>] | | 03 June 2008, 09:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, 28 Years Later |  | Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer made an on stage appearance together at the D6 - All things Digital Conference in their 28th year together at Microsoft. The interview touched a variety of subjects from the early days of the company, to Google, Yahoo, Windows Vista, Windows ... [read more >>] | | 28 May 2008, 10:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft to Give a Taste of Windows 7 this Week |  | Despite speculation and forecasts that Microsoft was going to adopt a new strategy for Windows development as far as future releases go, with a strong focus placed on modularization, the company promised that Windows Vista would not be the last of its kind. ... [read more >>] | | 26 May 2008, 03:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Bill Gates Unveils the Search Revolution to Bring Google Down |  | With or without Yahoo or even critical pieces of the Sunnyvale-based Internet giant, Microsoft is determined to go after Google with all it’s got. And excluding an evolution through acquisitions or mergers, the Redmond company can only generate growth on the search engine and online advertising markets organically. In this context, Microsoft has been unwrapping the spring 2008 update to Live Search, a release which culminated at the advanc ... [read more >>] | | 22 May 2008, 06:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Bill Gates: All Surfaces Will Be Windows Computers |  | Thanks to a new trend which is responsible for increasingly pointing technology in the direction of adopting natural user interfaces, Bill Gates’ initial goal for Microsoft – putting a computer on every desk in every home – is somewhat evolving. In fact, it has at this point in time transformed into efforts of integrating Windows computers into all the traditional surfaces that are currently inert, failing to represent items of focus or in ... [read more >>] | | 15 May 2008, 04:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Bill Gates Promises Windows 7 Will Be Less of a Resource Hog |  | There are but scarce details pointing the direction in which Microsoft is taking the development of Windows 7, and the operating system, for that matter. Nevertheless, if Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is to be believed, Windows 7 is going to be ... [read more >>] | | 12 May 2008, 11:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Will Build an Ubiquitous Computing Environment in the “City of the Future” |  | Microsoft will be responsible for building an ubiquitous computing environment in the "City of the Future." The Redmond company announced that its technology would be at the heart of Songdo, a new South Korean city being built 40 miles southwest of Seoul. Microsoft Solutions will cover various technological aspects of the Songdo International Business District and will be made available to citizens, government, as well as for ed ... [read more >>] | | 09 May 2008, 12:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Switches Yahoo Strategy for Organic Pipe-Dream |  | From the start of February and until the debut of May, Microsoft's new strategy on the search engine and online advertising markets seemed focused on the acquisition and integration of Yahoo as a key component. Microsoft insisted all along that the Sunnyvale Internet giant was just an aspect of its evolution, and not the sole solution to throw against Google, and that it had additional aces up its sleeve. With Chief Executiv ... [read more >>] | | 07 May 2008, 05:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Apple Addicts Top Microsoft Junkies |  | From Bill Gates to Steve Jobs, from marketing jabs to product campaigns and from Windows to Mac OS X, the face-off between the Redmond- and Cupertino-based companies is nothing short of multifaceted. And the Microsoft – Apple stand-off has successfully been extended beyond the customers of the two giants to all the persons coming in contact with their brands. In this regard, a study performed by ... [read more >>] | | 01 April 2008, 11:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| “Bill Gates' Last Day at Microsoft” to Get a Video Home |  | "Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft" is right on track to get an official video home courtesy of the Redmond company. Microsoft Videos Beta features the "coming soon" label but nothing else much. And in this context, the lack of content is most frustrating, because the Redmond giant manages ... [read more >>] | | 31 March 2008, 10:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft in Desperate Need of Fresh-Blood Transfusions |  | Microsoft is in desperate need of fresh-blood transfusions, with a strong focus on foreign-bred resources. In the United States, employers must obtain H-1B visas for foreign workers, but according to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, the limited number of visas means that companies cannot hire all the high-skilled talent available to them. In early March, Gates warned Congress that U.S. companies are losing their competitive edge i ... [read more >>] | | 31 March 2008, 05:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Ribbon Graphical User Interface Will Define the Windows 7 UX |  | The Ribbon graphical user interface will define the user experience of the next iteration of Windows, giving the operating system a new visual style trajectory compared to its predecessors, including Windows Vista. The Ribbon or Fluent GUI was born together with t ... [read more >>] | | 24 March 2008, 12:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Xbox 360 Gates-Signed Console to Forget the Pain |  | Everything started about a month ago when Xbox 360 owner Nathaniel sent his console for repairs over at Microsoft. His Xbox had a great sentimental value, being signed by quite some people in the gaming industry, including the folks over at Bungie and the Xbox 360 team. Ev ... [read more >>] | | 24 March 2008, 04:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Bill Gates Wants Fresh Blood to Fuel Technology Innovation |  | Microsoft Chairman and co-founder Bill Gates has come up with a recipe to continue fueling technology innovation in the U.S., and it involves fresh blood, an education reform and additional financial resources. Gates is scheduled to present this perspective before the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology, on the organization's 50th anniversary on March 12, 2008. With the country's competitiveness at stake, Gates is pre ... [read more >>] | | 12 March 2008, 11:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Wave to the Pretty Search Billionaires! |  | All you stalkers out there or women (and possibly men) who want to marry rich, here’s the perfect opportunity to set your eyes on some of the wealthiest men on the face of the goddamn Earth. The Forbes billionaires list has been released, and should you want to skip the complications of going after somebody with high standards, you should consider the geeky search figures on it.
In the order inscribed on the back of the playing shirts, ... [read more >>] | | 11 March 2008, 13:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Let's All Chip in for Bill Gates... Don't Blame Vista for This One! |  | Microsoft Chairman and co-founder Bill Gates is no longer on top of the world. For no less than 13 years, Gates has held the title of the world's richest man, according to Forbes Magazine. This is no longer the case. According to the latest statistics, Gates has not only b ... [read more >>] | | 06 March 2008, 09:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| What's Written on Bill Gates' Face? Positive 73%, Negative 27% |  | If it's true that the eyes are windows into the soul, then the face is a map to a person's mindset. At this point in time, facial coding is no more of a science than palm reading, but it has the potential of developing into a new area of expertise that could end up being used on a scale just as large as the polygraph. Facial coding, or the practice of interpreting the minute details, shifts and movements of the hundreds of muscle ... [read more >>] | | 26 February 2008, 04:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Gates Says It's the People as Microsoft Prepares to Replace Directors on Yahoo's Board |  | Ever since Microsoft fathered its People Ready vision, the company has stuck to the leitmotif of the people being the most important resource in any company. So why should things be different for Yahoo? Well the truth of the matter is that they aren't. On February 1, 2008 Microsoft went public with an acquisition proposal for Yahoo estimating the company at $44.6 billion. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates did give his blessing f ... [read more >>] | | 20 February 2008, 04:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Must Have Free Software from Microsoft - DreamSpark |  | Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition – free. Expression Studio – free. Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition – free. It does sound too good to be true, but this is the exception that confirms the rule. Microsoft DreamSpark is an initiative from the Redmond company designed to "inspire success, make a difference," while at the same time "ignite the imaginations and careers of today’s students." Via ... [read more >>] | | 19 February 2008, 10:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Bill Gates Says Yahoo or No Yahoo, Microsoft Is Going after Google |  | For Microsoft, Yahoo would deliver a healthy contribution to its swings towards Google's jugular. However, the Redmond company is not just sitting around and waiting for the finalization of the Yahoo acquisition in order to get the nod. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates indicated that with or without Yahoo, the company will target the web and go after Google. Gates revealed that Microsoft will continue to pour money into its web division ... [read more >>] | | 19 February 2008, 05:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Bill Gates: Xobni Adds Value to Office 2007 Outlook |  | Outlook is a default component of the Office System, and the 2007 version of Microsoft's productivity suite makes no exception to this rule. Present at the Office System Developers Conference 2008 in San Jose, California on February 11, 2008, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates underlined the relevance of the Office System as both a collection of applications, but also as a platform for developers, much in the same way as the Windows operat ... [read more >>] | | 18 February 2008, 03:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Googling at Microsoft Will Get You Shot! |  | When did Microsoft start tapping into its comedy gene? This is a valid question, whatever you might think of it. Humor was long believed not to be a part of the Microsoft genotype, but increasingly the Redmond company manages to come out with illustrative examples designed to prove just the opposite. In this context, the first thing that comes to mind is ... [read more >>] | | 13 February 2008, 08:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Bill Gates: Office Is a Platform too, Not Just Windows |  | In an effort to underline the relevance of the Office System as a platform for developers and not just an application, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates introduced during his keynote address at the Office System Developers Conference 2008, in San Jose, new software, services and tools designed to make Office an equivalent of Windows. At least from a development platform perspective. But unlike Windows, Gates emphasized the opportunity for deve ... [read more >>] | | 12 February 2008, 11:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows 7 and Office 14 Will Stretch into the Cloud |  | The next version of the Redmond company's flagship products will no longer be confined to the desktop. Despite the fact that both Windows and Office are essentially two desktop-centric solutions, Microsoft cannot afford to ignore the growing trend for applications and services to migrate online. The company itself has managed to make a few hesitant steps in the same direction in an effort to counter exclusive Software as a Service off ... [read more >>] | | 12 February 2008, 08:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Bill Gates' New Work at Microsoft Will Begin in July 2008 |  | Bill Gates' new work at Microsoft will debut come July 2008. Yes, July is also the month synonymous with the end of Gates' day-to-day role in the company he helped found. On June 15, 2006, Microsoft announced that Gates will enter a two-year transition period at the end of which the Chairman will shift his focus mainly on the global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates will not completely di ... [read more >>] | | 31 January 2008, 04:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Bill Gates Talks Windows 10 Years from Now, but No Windows 7 |  | Just three days before the one year anniversary of Windows vista, counting from the moment the operating system hit the shelves, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates was in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, attending the Government Leaders Forum Arabia 2008 "Accelerating Arab Competitiveness." While Windows Vista was not on the menu, the future of the Windows platform was. Gates had to address a question about his perspective over the fu ... [read more >>] | | 30 January 2008, 12:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows Vista Turns One Today! That's It, No More Talk of Windows 7 |  | Today, January 30, 2008, Microsoft's Windows Vista turns one! This day is without a doubt the largest anniversary celebration of the latest Windows client. The largest of three. Just because Vista has already passed its first year since it was released to manufacturing on November 8, 2006, and the first 12 months since it was introduced to business users on November 30 of the same year. In this context, January 30, 2008, simply marks ... [read more >>] | | 30 January 2008, 10:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Bill Gates Leaves Microsoft and Takes up Farming |  | Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman and co-founder, will divorce from Microsoft starting with mid 2008, as new farming projects show on the horizon. Back in June 2006, Microsoft announced that Gates was entering a two-year transition period at the end of which he would terminate his day-to-day role with the Redmond company. Gates stated at the time that he believed Microsoft's business and technical leadership to be strong enough to take s ... [read more >>] | | 28 January 2008, 07:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Bill Gates: It's Time for Creative Capitalism |  | Microsoft Chairman and Co-founder Bill Gates has set on a track to revolutionize capitalism. With the inherent aura of the richest man on the planet, Gates is now looking to convert businesses and business leaders to his own vision of capitalism. In this context, Gates' vision is of a new concept of capitalism, one that would end up benefiting the world's poorest people. Present at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, ... [read more >>] | | 25 January 2008, 13:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Bill Gates: 'Vision and Touch and Speech and Ink, All of those I Call Natural User Interface' |  | Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is ready to bet big on how the evolution of the way users interact with technology will make computing increasingly pervasive in the future. During his speech at the Government Leaders Forum Europe 2008, Berlin, Germany on January 23rd, 2008, Gates emphasized the impact that natural user interfaces would deliver on the adoption of technology. Having already seen a great deal of his vision with Microsoft come t ... [read more >>] | | 24 January 2008, 07:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Just Ahead of Vista's First Anniversary, Bill Gates Will Attend GLF Arabia 2008 |  | Back on January 30th, 2007, Windows Vista hit the shelves around the world. Of course that the consumer launch of the latest Windows client was preceded by the business release at the end of November 2006, which came under a month after the operating system was released to manufacturing. Bill Gates was among the plethora of Microsoft top executives present at the official Vista consumer launch event, at that time. And one year later, just ... [read more >>] | | 22 January 2008, 06:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Top Microsoft Executives Are Leaving the Company Like Rats from a Sinking Ship |  | It all started in the second week of January with Microsoft confirming the departure of Bruce Jaffe, Corporate Vice President, Corporate Development. But Jaffe signaled only the beginning of what was to come. It is hard not to look at Jaffe as a trend setter, but the fact of the matter is that lately Microsoft top executives have illustrated an increased tendency to leave the Redmond company.
Jaffe was responsible for overseeing, exec ... [read more >>] | | 17 January 2008, 08:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Steve Jobs Wants to Celebrate Bill Gates |  | The face-off between Apple and Microsoft (although essentially a disproportionate race between a software-centric company and a hardware-focused outfit) is much more than a constant comparison of products, market share, audience size, adoption pace, revenue ... [read more >>] | | 17 January 2008, 05:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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