If Bill Gates' original vision was that every desk in every home would have a computer, then the next major frontier will be bringing a computer to every person's pocket.
Putting the kibosh on one of 2011′s biggest non-stories, Bill Gates has said he isn’t going to return to full-time work at Microsoft. Thank heavens. His current gig as a philanthropist matters far more than anything he might do to nudge Windows Phone in the right direction or get Windows 8 off to a good start.
Bill Gates has shot down reports that he’ll ever go back to work full-time at Microsoft, the company he co-founded 36 years ago.
If you’re happy that Skype was purchased by Microsoft last week, Bill Gates is waiting to take all your thanks whenever you’re ready. Calling the multibillion dollar purchase “a great, great deal for Skype [and] a great deal for Microsoft,” Gates told the BBC that he was one of the movers and shakers who ensured [...]
Seven years ago, Google launched Gmail. They did it in a way that no one else had ever done it before: they offered two whole gigabytes of space. Bill Gates couldn’t understand the whole thing worked.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has a book coming out this month called Idea Man. You’ll find that Vanity Fair has a multi-page excerpt of the book, and the Wall Street Journal has a slightly shorter synopsis.
We take a look at five really rich people in the tech business and the ways in which they give back—or, in some cases, don’t.
Microsoft founder and former CEO Bill Gates has been spending his retirement—and the billions of dollars he’s amassed over the years—to try to improve the education system here in the U.S. and wipe out polio worldwide.
Speaking at TED last week, Bill Gates unveiled his vision for cleaner energy in the future and eliminating CO2 emissions by 2050 with his endorsement of a radically different type of nuclear reactor. He also noted the miracles that occur in nature by bringing out a jar of fireflies. It’s definitely worth the 30 minutes.
Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010
Peter Ha weighs in on Bill Gates’ criticism of the iPad, talks about what the iPad means for digital comics and explains what feedback he’s hearing about Google Buzz a few days after its launch.
