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William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. Microsoft had revenues of US$51.12 billion for the fiscal year ending June 2007, and employs more than 78,000 people in 105 countries and regions.
On June 15, 2006, Microsoft [...]

Sometimes, software isn’t so magical. Even for Bill Gates.
For the opening piece in our series on Gates leaving daily life at Microsoft, one goal was to give a clear picture of the Microsoft co-founder’s role inside the company, as a gauge of the impact his departure will have. As part of that, I went [...]

All good things must come to an end, and in the case of Bill Gates’ career at Microsoft, it’s coming to an end today.
Friday, June 27th is Gates final day on the job as an employee of Microsoft, the company he’s been with for 33 years. It’s been a career full of much turmoil and [...]

The new iPhone hasn’t even landed in stores yet, but already pundits are grumbling about the revised iPhone, based on demos and published specs, about what the new model has failed to fix since the first-gen device.
Yes, we get 3G and GPS, a way to connect to Exchange, and the new app store, but [...]

Judges and jurors who must decide whether sexually explicit material is obscene are asked to use a local yardstick: does the material violate community standards?
That is often a tricky question because there is no simple, concrete way to gauge a community’s tastes and values.
The Internet may be changing that. In a novel approach, [...]

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Gates gives an update on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s work in agriculture at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland early this year.

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Bill Gates shows off Windows software in this 1990 photo. That was also the year [...]

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Gates gives an update on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s work in agriculture at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland early this year.

MARTY LEDERHANDLER / AP
Bill Gates shows off Windows software in this 1990 photo. That was also the year [...]

Google has entered the living room, but it’s not clear whether it is just wandering through or whether it will grab some popcorn, plop on the couch and stay for a while.
The company has introduced a new feature to its Google Desktop program that can help get content from the Internet onto televisions. It is [...]

Courtesy of Universal PicturesJames McAvoy and Angelina Jolie in “Wanted”
“WANTED”James McAvoy, Angelina JolieDirected by Timur BekmambetovRated RWide release

“Wanted,” based on the comic-book miniseries by Mark Millar, is every action movie you ever loved, at twice the speed. It should be the most original live-action blockbuster of the summer. Russian director Timur Bekmambetov, who made the [...]

More than twenty-five years ago, the very first issue of PC Magazine covered the work between IBM and Microsoft, work that originated in the first PC. In 1982, editor-in-chief Dave Bunnell sat down with Gates in the first of what would be several interviews over the years, culminating in the Bill Gates “exit interview” that [...]