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  • Microsoft ponies up for academia

    Microsoft has created a US$1.2 million fund for academic research that focuses on putting computing into the hands of those less familiar with technology and with little access.

  • Credit where credit's due -- to Microsoft

    To all Microsoft opponents: give credit where credit is due and let's work together on bridging the digital divide.

  • China: Revenues and the Internet death penalty

    COMMENTARY: When tech leaders start making moral speeches, should all their actions be judged in moral terms?

  • Why Bill Gates' anti-spam plan won't work

    News flash from Davos, Switzerland: The end of spam is near! And it's going to come, Bill Gates predicted at the World Economic Forum, because we're going to make it unprofitable to send. Taken another way: Accepting unsolicited commerical e-mail could become a small source of added income for us all.

  • Will Microsoft sour on Apple pact?

    When Bill Gates appeared by satellite at the Macworld Expo five years ago to announce a pact with archrival Apple Computer, it was one of the most dramatic moments in Mac history.

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  • A Gates reality check

    Microsoft's chairman talks about taking on the big guns in the business software market. "We are patient people," he says.

  • Why Bill Gates' anti-spam plan won't work

    The end of spam is near! And it's going to come, Bill Gates predicted at the World Economic Forum, because we're going to make it unprofitable to send. Is he for real?

  • Commentary: For and against Gate's 'creative capitalism'

    Two writers from ZDNet.com.au's sister site CNET News.com, Michael Kanellos and Declan McCullagh, debate Bill Gates' call for businesses to allocate resources that could alleviate problems in the developing world.

  • What's on their mind? Linux and IBM

    The mind-bending spectacle of Steve Ballmer and Scott McNealy swapping Detroit Red Wings jerseys and yukking it up onstage at a swank San Francisco hotel made for a fetching photo opportunity.

  • How the Mac was born

    Andy Hertzfeld, co-creator of the Macintosh, talks about his work on the Mac, his reasons for writing a book on it and the reaction from his former co-workers.

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