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Tag: Bill Gates

Microsoft’s Apple investment: The worst deal of them all?

Monday, December 9, 2013 10:44 am67 Comments

Whether you’re holding an old-school 4, a tooty-fruity 5c, a Shanghai-edition gold 5s…

Microsoft develops ‘smart bra’ to prevent women from eating too much

Wednesday, December 4, 2013 6:01 pmWednesday, December 4, 201354 Comments

Microsoft is researching bringing artificial intelligence to braziers…

Bill Gates speaks, and chokes up, at Steve Ballmer’s final Microsoft shareholders meeting (with video)

Tuesday, November 19, 2013 3:57 pmTuesday, November 19, 201342 Comments

Microsoft’s annual meeting of shareholders in Bellevue this morning…

Microsoft short-timer Steve Ballmer’s exit interview

Monday, November 18, 2013 9:31 amMonday, November 18, 201331 Comments

Steve Ballmer paced his corner office on a foggy January morning here…

Microsoft CEO candidate Elop said to mull focus company on Office, not Windows

Friday, November 8, 2013 9:32 am19 Comments

Stephen Elop, a candidate to replace Steve Ballmer as Microsoft CEO…

Microsoft said to include Kevin Turner on internal list for CEO

Wednesday, November 6, 2013 9:11 pm43 Comments

Microsoft Corp.’s board placed Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner…

Microsoft narrows CEO shortlist; Elop, Mulally make the cut

Tuesday, November 5, 2013 11:30 pm43 Comments

Microsoft Corp has narrowed its list of external candidates…

Top investors push Microsoft board to boot chairman Bill Gates

Tuesday, October 1, 2013 10:49 pmTuesday, October 1, 201342 Comments

Top investors in Microsoft Corp are lobbying the board to press for Bill Gates to step down…

Bill Gates admits Ctrl-Alt-Del command a mistake

Friday, September 27, 2013 2:57 pmFriday, September 27, 201347 Comments

Bill Gates has described the decision to use Ctrl+Alt+Del…

Ford’s Alan Mulally to become Microsoft’s next CEO?

Thursday, September 26, 2013 11:12 pmThursday, September 26, 201349 Comments

Ford CEO Alan Mulally has vaulted to the forefront of the candidates…

What’s behind Microsoft’s fall from dominance?

Friday, September 6, 2013 2:10 pm41 Comments

The decade since Steve Ballmer took over as chief executive at Microsoft…

Rob Enderle: ‘I may be delusional’

Friday, August 30, 2013 10:58 amFriday, August 30, 201355 Comments

I view Steve’s early retirement as one of my own greatest failures…

British Bookmaker Ladbrokes takes bets on Microsoft’s next CEO

Wednesday, August 28, 2013 5:03 pmFriday, August 30, 201324 Comments

While much of the tech world has spent the last week handicapping…

Ballmer’s poisonous employee-ranking system helps explain beleaguered Microsoft’s decline

Tuesday, August 27, 2013 4:30 pmTuesday, August 27, 201358 Comments

There were many reasons for the decline of Microsoft under Steve Ballmer…

Microsoft seeks to reassure workers by telling them that Ballmer’s reorg plan will go ahead

Tuesday, August 27, 2013 9:05 amTuesday, August 27, 201335 Comments

Microsoft Corp. is telling employees that a reorganization plan…

The rise and fall of Windows Mobile, under outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer

Monday, August 26, 2013 12:34 pmMonday, August 26, 201322 Comments

For several years, before Apple introduced an iPhone…

Steve Ballmer’s exit not planned or as smooth as portrayed by Microsoft

Monday, August 26, 2013 11:09 amMonday, August 26, 201332 Comments

According to sources close to the situation…

If Steve Ballmer ran Apple

Monday, August 26, 2013 10:00 amMonday, August 26, 201324 Comments

Imagine Steve Ballmer was right now the CEO of Apple…

Under sales guy Ballmer, Microsoft’s stock has been a dud

Monday, August 26, 2013 9:02 am20 Comments

When Steve Ballmer took over as CEO in January 2000…

A Tale of Two Steves: Apple’s Jobs vs. Microsoft’s Ballmer

Saturday, August 24, 2013 12:29 pmTuesday, August 27, 201363 Comments

Steve Ballmer proved to be the anti-Steve Jobs…

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s $16 billion albatross

Friday, August 23, 2013 2:58 pmFriday, August 23, 201314 Comments

It’s hard not to feel a little bit bad for Steve Ballmer today…

Microsoft stock surges on Ballmer retirement news

Friday, August 23, 2013 10:33 amFriday, August 23, 201359 Comments

Stock futures have moved into positive territory just ahead…

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months as BoD initiates succession process

Friday, August 23, 2013 9:31 amMonday, August 26, 2013176 Comments

Well, it’s finally happened…

South Korea initiates ‘Korean Steve Jobs’ project

Wednesday, August 14, 2013 10:30 amWednesday, August 14, 201331 Comments

We’re all aware of the obsession that Samsung has with copying Apple…

As iPad kills Microsoft Surface tablets, Bill Gates claims: ‘a lot of iPad users are frustrated’

Wednesday, July 31, 2013 11:09 amWednesday, July 31, 201378 Comments

The iPad is one of the most popular consumer products of all time…

Microsoft looks to move Windows XP sufferers off antiquated 12-year old OS by next April

Tuesday, July 9, 2013 7:00 pmTuesday, July 9, 201342 Comments

Starting April 8, 2014, there will be no more patches or updates for Windows XP…

Teary-eyed Bill Gates recounts final visit with Steve Jobs (with video)

Monday, May 13, 2013 8:36 amMonday, May 13, 201326 Comments

It was a striking, yet subtle moment in Gates’ 60 Minutes interview…

The difference between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 1:37 pmTuesday, May 7, 201328 Comments

Yesterday Bill Gates took some heat in the media when he proclaimed….

Bill Gates: A lot of iPad users frustrated because ‘they can’t type’ or ‘create documents’

Monday, May 6, 2013 12:39 pmMonday, May 6, 2013102 Comments

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told CNBC on Monday that Microsoft…

Bill Gates offers $1 million for world’s next-generation condom

Monday, March 25, 2013 4:03 pmMonday, March 25, 201373 Comments

Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates promises…

Why doesn’t anybody copy Apple?

Tuesday, February 19, 2013 2:22 pmTuesday, February 19, 201327 Comments

Put another way: Why is it that everyone wants to copy Apple’s products but nobody wants to copy being Apple?

Former Microsoft exec: CEO Ballmer culls internal rivals to retain power

Tuesday, January 22, 2013 8:20 am25 Comments

Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is not the right leader…

Forbidden fruit: Bill Gates’ kids banned from owning superior Apple products

Monday, December 31, 2012 9:55 am47 Comments

Melinda Gates, the wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, has said her children are banned…

Catastrophe Theory: Microsoft on the verge of a sudden collapse?

Monday, November 26, 2012 9:08 am52 Comments

Last week, usability expert Jakob Nielsen wrote a devastating critique of Windows 8…

Bill Gates backed Steve Ballmer in Sinofsky ouster

Tuesday, November 13, 2012 12:16 pm21 Comments

Gates supported the move by Ballmer…

Untold stories about Steve Jobs: Hiding the Porsches, making Gates wait, and more

Tuesday, October 2, 2012 4:32 pmTuesday, October 2, 201218 Comments

There are plenty of ‘Steve’ stories that you haven’t heard around…

Apple’s 10 biggest mistakes since Steve Jobs returned

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 3:33 pm39 Comments

Nobody’s perfect and it’s actually an interesting intellectual exercise…

Amidst economic doldrums, Apple’s market value hits all-time record; surpasses Microsoft’s set during 1999 bubble

Tuesday, August 21, 2012 8:45 am3 Comments

Apple Inc’s market value climbed past $623 billion on Monday…

Apple beats Microsoft, sets all-time record for company value at $621 billion

Monday, August 20, 2012 12:08 pmMonday, August 20, 201237 Comments

Apple is the world’s most valuable company, ever…

Apple’s iPhone now worth more than all of Microsoft Corporation

Sunday, August 19, 2012 3:45 pmSunday, August 19, 201226 Comments

One Apple product, something that didn’t exist five years ago…

Bill Gates wants to create a 21st-century toilet

Wednesday, August 15, 2012 9:36 pmWednesday, August 15, 201287 Comments

Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist, wants to talk poop…

Ballmer on Apple’s Mac, Steve Jobs, and why Microsoft’s lost decade is a myth

Wednesday, July 11, 2012 3:00 pmWednesday, July 11, 201284 Comments

Steve Ballmer says that the Mac was a great computer and all that, but…

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