Bill Gates, the man who started Microsoft and has been its public face throughout its three decades of existence, plans to step away from daily work at the company.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will increase its contribution to a global health initiative by US$250 million, the Microsoft chairman said on Monday.
Bill Gates used his keynote at the Microsoft IT Forum in Copenhagen to say that complexity needs to be removed from IT to free up budgets and help companies move forward. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, he said that software was the answer.
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has predicted the demise of the traditional password because it cannot "meet the challenge" of keeping critical information secure.
Microsoft on Tuesday showed off a forthcoming update to Windows designed to make the operating system more secure and proposed a caller ID-like system for e-mail that could help curtail the growing spam problem.
In an exclusive interview, Microsoft's chairman says the decision to remove WinFS means "the glass is three-quarters full."
It used to be a money-losing afterthought. Now the business software unit is playing a key role in Redmond's plans.
Search giant's expanding roster of Windows-free Web services may be a factor in the shuffle. Software on demand is an issue too.
Is Internet Explorer 7 just another security patch disguised as a "new" offering? Should it rightfully be called IE 6.1 for Windows XP Service Pack 2, asks Fran Foo.
Ten years ago, Microsoft executives worried that an Internet platform could threaten Windows. The nightmare now has a name: Google.
In the past year, Microsoft appears to have done just what it asked a court not to make it do: fragment Windows.
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Microsoft is moving ahead with plans to more tightly integrate the development of Windows, Office and its other programs--and much of these efforts are tied to Longhorn.
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