Channel 9 have caught up with Bill Gates as he prepares to step down from his full time duties. It's the only place he's worked and he's getting ready to transition from his day to... More...

During an interview with Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Chairman Bill Gates revealed that Microsoft will not launch a product that competes directly with Apple's iPhone: "No, we won't do that. In the so-called smart phone... More...

Microsoft Tuesday stepped onto the VoIP stage with the rollout of its unified communications portfolio. In a keynote address at the San Francisco event, Chairman Bill Gates touted the benefits of software-based computing and the... More...

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates cited a survey done in the United States on "where will the next big success and where the next Bill Gates come from" when visiting the town of Boao in south... More...

Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, predicted that consumers would move to Vista faster than they did to past Windows upgrades. The Windows franchise is the centerpiece of Microsoft's business because the company makes more... More...

In an open letter, former Soviet leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev asked Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to show Alexander Ponosov, a Russian teacher from a remote village, mercy as he did not... More...

Thanks Redeemed for the news submission. 1:45 p.m. PST / 4:45 p.m. EST From Times Square in New York City, join Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates for a live webcast celebrating the worldwide launch of... More...

Yesterday we had the rare opportunity to talk with Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates about the future of Windows, 64-bit computing, and more. As we have previously reported, Gartner Group and others have reported that they... More...

While Google has grabbed an early lead in search and Internet advertising, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates pledged on Wednesday that his company would "keep them honest." Speaking to a crowd of MSN's largest advertisers, Gates... More...

Bill Gates opened this year's RSA Conference this year byoutlining some of the goals Microsoft wishes to achieve in terms of securityover the next few years. Highlighting improved security features that will shipwith Windows Vista... More...

Microsoft CEO Bill Gates is once again kicking off this years Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with a keynote address. The whole event is available to watch live starting at 6:30PM PST. Those of... More...

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Thursday countered the popular notion that workers are universally overloaded with too much information. Speaking to a crowd of chief executives, Gates cited the need for access... More...

In an email to business chiefs made public today, Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft, discussed the companies plans to make their software more interoperable with other systems. " Interoperability is more pragmatic than... More...

Passwords will soon be a thing of the past, replaced by biometric and smart-card technology, Bill Gates reiterated on Tuesday. Speaking at the Microsoft IT Forum in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Microsoft chair... More...

California (Hollywood Reporter) -- Bill Gates predicts a future for the entertainment industry in which traditional broadcast television is rendered irrelevant. It's a positive vision, however, because new and better business models made possible by... More...

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Friday started out a busy day in the Bay Area by talking to college students about a range of topics, from open-source software to malaria to the next Xbox. ... More...

Microsoft plans to offer its own anti-spyware software, Chairman Bill Gates said Friday. Gates said Microsoft will offer software to detect malicious applications and that the company will keep it up-to-date on... More...

On Friday Microsoft announced that it would not be shipping WinFS with its next-generation operating system Longhorn. This announcement can be viewed as either good or bad news. Good in the sense that... More...

Microsoft's chief software architect, Bill Gates, plans on turning Microsoft's security problems around, making them into a valuable asset. Already, Microsoft has made some great progress by releasing new security features present in SP2... More...

By create more secure software and by offering software management applications, including the Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) and Systems Management Server (SMS) Microsoft is changing the current view of security, Bill Gates said Thursday. ... More...

Bill Gates has issued a report on the current status of stopping SPAM made by Microsoft. Already steady progress has been made from the deployment of SmartScreen (Microsoft spam-filtering technology). That's present in MSN... More...

According to Bill Gates open source isn't Microsoft's toughest competitor. No, it's pirated software. Australia--Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates has labeled bootlegged software a greater threat to... More...

Hardware costs will fall sharply within a decade to the point where widespread computing with speech and handwriting won't be limited by expensive technology, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said on Monday. "Ten years out,... More...

A "mini bubble" has emerged among Internet companies, but it likely won't reach the level of the previous dot-com boom, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said. "We are back in a mini-bubble era... More...

Microsoft has been mailing free copies of its pricey Office productivity software to government employees, but CNET News.com has learned that at least two federal agencies are warning recipients to return the gifts or risk... More...

If the U.S. Postal Service delivered mail for free, our mailboxes would surely runneth over with more credit-card offers, sweepstakes entries, and supermarket fliers. That's why we get so much junk e-mail: It's essentially free... More...

Microsoft on Tuesday showed off a forthcoming update to Windows designed to make the operating system more secure. During a speech at the RSA conference by Chairman Bill Gates, Microsoft previewed several new... More...

Folks have been talking about the coming convergence between PCs and consumer electronics for years. But that was the easy part. The hard call was to figure out exactly how the pieces... More...

Bill Gates discusses "Longhorn," Linux and why he's so optimistic about the future. The smoke having almost cleared from several years of antitrust proceedings, Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill... More...

For two decades, Bill Gates has used his Comdex keynote speech to mark out his vision for technologies from the Internet to XML. This year he used the bully pulpit to make it clear that... More...

Microsoft has not had merger discussions with Internet search engine Google, as was widely reported, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates says. "We've never been in any talks with Google about any acquisition thing in... More...

Bill Gates yesterday confirmed that there is no official release date yet for the next version of Windows, named Longhorn. "Longhorn could be 2005 or 2006," Gates told a small group of journalists yesterday at... More...

My good friend Kheldar pointed me to this article on the BBC, where CBBC Newsround Press Pack reporter, 15-year-old Sarah Laughton got to interview the man himself. Bill Gates, the world's richest man and... More...