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Windows 8 – Life After Windows 7

As Microsoft is wrapping up Windows 7, with the release to manufacturing deadline just around the corner and the general availability deadline set for October 22, the company is also looking forward to the next version of Windows. In this context, the software giant already confirmed officially that planning for Wind...

20 July 2009
02:50 GMT

The Cloud Will Be the Backend for Phone, PC and TV Solutions

Moving forward, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Chief Software Architect, sees cloud computing positioned as the backend for three main types of devices that will continue to define the digital lives of end users. The man that inherited the title of CSA from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is currently architecting a new strate...

4 May 2009
11:55 GMT

Obama Names Bill Gates' Successor to Science and Technology Advisory Council

President Barack Obama has named one of the two successors of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to the Science and Technology Advisory Council, a move that will put the man in charge with building Microsoft's future side by side with Eric Schmidt, the chief executive officer of rival Google. Following his pseudo-r...

27 April 2009
12:35 GMT

Plans Already in Motion for Windows Azure

After just a few weeks since the introduction of Microsoft's Cloud operating system, the company has revealed that the developer community is already making plans to embrace the brand new Windows platform. At the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles at the end of October 2008, Microsoft Chief Softwa...

17 November 2008
12:02 GMT

Windows Azure – Pronunciation Alternatives

  Windows Azure was introduced during the opening day keynote address at the professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles at the end of October. Following the departure of Bill Gates from his day-to-day role with the company, Microsoft embarked on the path of Software-plus-Services under the leadership of C...

10 November 2008
15:11 GMT

The Next Context-Centered User Engagement Model

Microsoft is working to bring the next killer application and the next-generation engagement model to fruition, under the leadership of Craig Mundie, Chief Research & Strategy Officer. Following his pseudo-retirement from Microsoft, Bill Gates split his role between Ray Ozzie, now Chief Software Architect, and Mundie...

30 September 2008
10:08 GMT

The Limits of the Limitless Live Mesh

According to Microsoft, although the potential of Live Mesh is limitless, the cloud platform does have boundaries, especially in its current form. Introduced in April 2008, Live Mesh is a project developed under the new Software plus Services strategy of the Redmond company, a direction imposed by Ray Ozzie after tak...

15 August 2008
06:18 GMT

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 excl...

28 June 2008
07:03 GMT

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 loo...

24 June 2008
09:38 GMT

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 alre...

23 June 2008
13:54 GMT

Beyond Windows - The Cloud as the Hub of Social and Device Mesh

This week, Microsoft has made the first step into a new era of its evolution, one that takes it beyond its traditional business model, focused almost exclusively on the desktop, the Windows operating system and Office productivity suite. After he took the title of Chief Software officer from Chairman Bill Gates, toge...

24 April 2008
09:19 GMT

New Microsoft Platform Available

Microsoft has made available a new platform focused on providing a comprehensive test bed for both software and services. The Microsoft Experimentation Platform is designed to overhaul traditional product planning, testing and development, by providing a medium of direct interaction with the end users and placing fee...

17 April 2008
07:13 GMT

Live Mesh - Mesh It Up with Microsoft

Next week, Microsoft is going to demonstrate the Live Mesh service. The Web 2.0 Expo scheduled to take place on April 22-25, 2008, in San Francisco, will be the stage for the initial introduction of Live Mesh. Built under the company's Live brand umbrella, Live Mesh was prefigured as early as MIX08 in Las Vegas ...

14 April 2008
04:53 GMT

Ask Not What IE8 Will Do for You, but What You Can Do for IE8!

Ask not what Internet Explorer 8 will do for you, but what you can, and will have to do for Internet Explorer 8. This because IE8 will not be tailored to the existing Internet. Not even by a long shot. In fact, just the opposite, Microsoft expects the entire world wide web to adapt to Internet Explorer 8. In the maki...

4 March 2008
05:52 GMT

So Much More Than Internet Explorer 8

After it launched Internet Explorer 7, in October 2006, for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003, and then again in November of the same year and in January as a default component for Windows Vista, Microsoft turned its focus on Internet Explorer 8. Still, 2007 went through for the most part with absolutely no word...

31 January 2008
12:35 GMT

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 ...

31 January 2008
04:52 GMT

CES 2008: Bill Gate's Last Day at Microsoft - Hilarious Video

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 com...

7 January 2008
10:26 GMT

Bill Gates' Role at Microsoft Comes to an End, Onward to Save the World

The clock is ticking for Microsoft Co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates as he prepares to abandon his day-to-day role with the Redmond company. Back in June 2006, Gates announced a two-year buffer period designed to ensure his smooth transition out of Microsoft. At this point in time, there are less than 10 months unti...

26 September 2007
05:46 GMT


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