Tag archive: Bill Gates

According to Microsoft's head of corporate communications Frank Shaw, the software giant plans to discontinue the relationship with the Consumer Electronics Show after the upcoming show during January 2012. In previous years, Microsoft has taken up a significant portion of space in the Central Hall at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The reason behind pulling out of the event is attributed to different timing on software and hardware… Read More

After years of litigation, Novell's antitrust case against Microsoft has ended in a hung jury. A single juror was left unconvinced that Microsoft leveraged its monopoly power in the desktop operating systems market back in the mid-1990s to advance its own Microsoft Office suite and crush WordPerfect and Quattro Pro. The result is that the case (which dates all the way back to the introduction of Windows 95) could find itself going to… Read More

Bill Gates has said in an interview that he won't be returning to Microsoft full-time, following speculation that he was planning just such a move. Speaking to Fairfax Media in Australia, where he and his family are spending a holiday, Gates was directly asked whether the story had any weight, to which he replied he would remain “part-time Microsoft, full-time Foundation for all my future.” He was referring to the Bill &… Read More

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates took the stand today as the first witness in a case brought against Microsoft by Novell that dates all the way back to the dark days of Windows 95. In a nutshell, Novell claims Microsoft abused its monopoly power in the desktop operating system market to crush WordPerfect when Microsoft launched Windows 95—and, with it, a Windows 95-compatible version of Microsoft Office. Microsoft claims no such strategy:… Read More

Even though the Steve Jobs biography did not out sell the iPhone 4S in its first week on the market it still had a very good week. In the U.S. alone Walter Isaacson’s book sold 379,000 copies at around $35 each. After only six days on the market the book has already become the 18th bestselling book of the year. The Biography out sold the second most popular book by more than three copies to one. The range expands when compared to the second most… Read More

Steve Jobs made quite a few pot shots at Microsoft and Bill Gates in his posthumously published biography by Walter Isaacson. And in the book, Bill Gates makes a few shots back, but we in the media are never happy without a fight. While interviewing Gates on ABC News this Sunday, Christiane Amanpour prodded him with Jobs's criticisms. Gates responded very graciously.  Here's the quote from Steve Jobs:  “Bill is basically… Read More

It's one thing to be told that money isn't everything by someone who has never had any. It's quite another when the person giving the advice is the wealthiest man in the world.  This lesson was recently learned by a lucky group of computer science and engineering students at the University of Washington, who had the opportunity to listen of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, a native of UW's hometown of Seattle, give his… Read More

With the new Steve Jobs book coming out, the media has been over saturating the Web with quotes from the book, with Jobs talking about a controversial topic or speaking his mind about people like Bill Gates. We've run plenty of these stories ourselves, but as much as they're beginning to grow too plentiful, we're still fascinated by the life of Jobs. If you're going to watch one video, we recommend checking out the… Read More

The death of Steve Jobs has, and will continue to dominate the blogospheres and news feeds for several days to come—and rightly so. Few people have had such a significant and measureable impact on modern life, and his absence will be felt. Over the next weeks, months and even years, the retrospectives and remembrances will flood in, and the man will be transformed to legend. Part of that legend will always be kept in context with the rivalry… Read More

Despite giving tons of the stuff away, Bill Gates still has loads of it. And even more than he had this time last year. The vast wealth of the Microsoft co-founder has ensured he retains his position at the top of Forbes’ latest list of the richest people in the US today. The list, published on Wednesday, puts his net worth at $59 billion, up $5 billion on last year’s figures. But look who’s coming up the list – that’s right, Facebook… Read More

The day all Apple fans have been dreading has finally arrived: Steve Jobs has announced his resignation. He will no longer run Apple's day-to-day operations. And upon Jobs' recommendation, Tim Cook has been officially voted in as Apple's new CEO, a role he has held since January, filling in for Jobs as he's dealt with a mysterious health issue, possibly related to his ongoing struggles with pancreatic cancer. It was the… Read More

The selling off of five million shares by a single investor in one go might ordinarily raise an eyebrow, possibly two, but in the case of Bill Gates’ recent offload, observers’ eyebrows can stay firmly in position. According to a report by the Guardian on Friday, the Microsoft founder sold the shares to help fund work carried out by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the organization he co-founded in 1994. A regulatory filing showed that… Read More

When it was announced last week that Microsoft had bought Internet phone company Skype for a whacking $8.5 billion, it caused many in the tech industry to carefully place their cup of coffee on their desk, furrow their brow slightly and say, “Eh?” The news media was filled with stories trying to work out precisely why Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was so excited about the takeover of a company that lost $7 million last year and charges nothing for… Read More

Paul Allen's new book, Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft, will hit book shelves this week. Most of the early buzz has dwelled on Allen's contentious relationship with Bill Gates, who Allen claims tried to dilute his shares when he had cancer in the early days of Microsoft. Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes asks about the major controversies in the book while touring Allen's huge estate, including his museum of jet… Read More