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Tag: Bill Gates

Microsoft’s downfall: Inside the executive e-mails and cannibalistic culture that fueled Microsoft’s lost decade

Saturday, July 7, 2012 9:16 amSaturday, July 7, 201242 Comments

Kurt Eichenwald traces the “astonishingly foolish management decisions” at Microsoft…

Bill Gates: Apple may have to make a Surface-like device

Tuesday, July 3, 2012 5:35 pmTuesday, July 3, 2012116 Comments

Now that he’s in his 50s, Bill Gates is still fanatical…

Dear Microsoft, Steve Balmer and Bill Gates: What is up with your obsession with keyboards?

Thursday, June 28, 2012 11:39 am48 Comments

The Surface is, perhaps, a bit too aptly named…

Bill Gates: Tablets in the classroom have ‘really horrible track record’

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 11:54 amWednesday, June 27, 201291 Comments

Just giving people devices has a really horrible track record…

How Apple pushed Microsoft to create its ‘Surface’ tablets

Monday, June 25, 2012 10:21 amMonday, June 25, 201226 Comments

Appel basically forced Microsoft to concoct their Blurry Ass Tablet™ efforts…

Jason Schwarz: Top 10 reasons why Microsoft’s Surface is DOA

Friday, June 22, 2012 1:26 pmFriday, June 22, 201251 Comments

The only explanation for Ballmer still being the CEO of Microsoft is that he must have photos on Bill Gates…

Malcolm Gladwell: In 50 years, people will forget Steve Jobs, but revere Bill Gates

Saturday, June 9, 2012 8:22 amSaturday, June 9, 2012113 Comments

Who was Steve Jobs again?

Apple now worth more than double Microsoft’s market value

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 2:08 pmWednesday, March 14, 201224 Comments

In NASDAQ trading at 2pm today, Microsoft (MSFT) had a market value of…

Former top Microsoft exec Ozzie: World is over the PC

Saturday, March 10, 2012 10:28 amMonday, March 12, 201247 Comments

Ray Ozzie, the man who succeeded Bill Gates…

Bill Gates: ‘I wrote Steve Jobs a letter as he was dying. He kept it by his bed’

Friday, January 27, 2012 4:01 pmFriday, January 27, 201263 Comments

One of the few people to understand Bill Gates’ compulsions was Steve Jobs…

Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates: The hare wins in the end (and gives a far superior speech)

Monday, January 23, 2012 4:16 pmMonday, January 23, 201249 Comments

In the early days of personal computers, both dropped out of college and launched their own businesses…

Bill Gates rules out Microsoft CEO return; claims Microsoft didn’t shamelessly rip-off Apple

Thursday, December 15, 2011 11:01 amThursday, December 15, 201139 Comments

Bill Gates today ruled out ever returning to the helm of Microsoft…

CEO Steve Ballmer’s popularity among Microsoft shareholders on the wane

Friday, November 18, 2011 10:09 amFriday, November 18, 201127 Comments

Ballmer was the only Microsoft board member that didn’t receive…

Steve Jobs and NeXT: Genesis of the new Apple

Monday, November 7, 2011 4:17 pm30 Comments

I was formally introduced to NeXT when Steve Jobs visited the offices…

Why Bill Gates killed the tablet that could have saved Microsoft from iPad or something

Tuesday, November 1, 2011 5:32 pmTuesday, November 1, 201152 Comments

Do you remember Microsoft’s top secret Couriet tablet project?

Bill Gates: Steve Jobs’ criticism of him ‘very understandable’; ‘at various times, he felt beleaguered’

Monday, October 31, 2011 11:01 amMonday, October 31, 201137 Comments

Steve Jobs’ official biography, authored by Walter Isaacson…

Analyst: Gates and Ballmer should seek more artistic thinking to compete with Apple

Tuesday, October 25, 2011 6:44 pmTuesday, October 25, 201127 Comments

Microsoft has been shaped in the image of Gates and Ballmer…

Biographer Isaacson describes what Steve Jobs didn’t like about Bill Gates and Microsoft (with video)

Tuesday, October 25, 2011 4:52 pmTuesday, October 25, 201114 Comments

Isaacson the development of the Macintosh computer and why Jobs became so upset with Microsoft’s Bill Gates…

Steve Jobs on Bill Gates: ‘Unimaginative; he just shamelessly ripped off other people’s ideas’

Monday, October 24, 2011 10:36 amMonday, October 24, 201168 Comments

Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything…

Microsoft lowers flags to half-staff at all offices worldwide in tribute to Steve Jobs

Monday, October 10, 2011 11:30 am48 Comments

As a tribute to Steve Jobs, Microsoft will fly its flags at all its worldwide offices…

Friends and business rivals mourn the passing of Steve Jobs

Wednesday, October 5, 2011 9:57 pm35 Comments

News of Steve Jobs’s death, while not unexpected, precipitated strong emotions…

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates looks to reinvent the toilet

Saturday, July 23, 2011 9:46 amWednesday, August 15, 2012110 Comments

Gates says it’s time to move on from the era of the classic toilet…

Apple now worth more than Wintel (Microsoft and Intel combined)

Friday, June 3, 2011 4:45 pmSaturday, June 4, 201187 Comments

At market close today, Microsoft (MSFT) had a market value of $201.59 billion…

Bill Gates: ‘Cute’ tech won’t solve planet’s energy woes

Tuesday, May 3, 2011 12:49 pmTuesday, May 3, 2011106 Comments

Attaching solar panels to roofs, building windmills in backyards or deploying other small-scale energy tech…

Paul Allen: Working with Bill Gates like being in hell

Monday, April 18, 2011 12:08 pmMonday, April 18, 201177 Comments

Microsoft’s famously eclectic co-founder Paul Allen recently decided…

Microsoft co-founder Allen: Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer schemed to rip me off after I got cancer

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:51 am66 Comments

Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer schemed to take shares in Microsoft Corp. from co-founder Paul Allen…

Bill Gates: States’ public employee pensions are completely unsustainable; action must be taken

Thursday, March 3, 2011 4:08 pm59 Comments

There are long-term problems with state budgets that a return to economic growth won’t solve…

Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ ultimate goal: ‘to take back the computer business from Microsoft’

Thursday, June 16, 2005 1:34 pmWednesday, October 23, 201383 Comments

True to his prediction, Apple Chief Executive and co-founder Steve Jobs returned to work a little more than a month after his surgery…

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