Put your questions to Bill Gate
Bill Gates is to answer your questions at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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3.1.2008 Vista OEM 'Express' upgrades stuck at the gate
Europeans who bought a new PC in time for Christmas and were persuaded that they would get a Vista upgrade soon after the rollout by redeeming a voucher, are learning that demand for the upgrades far outstrips "supply".
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18.2.2007 You are got Windows 7 questions, I have got answers
It’s impossible to offer a comprehensive evaluation of a product as big and sprawling as Windows 7 with just screenshots and specs.
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30.10.2008 MSN Answers a Million More Questions
The MSN Search group announced on its team blog last week that it has added "about a million" new Instant Answers (also known as "direct answers") to its service. The MSN folks are expanding MSN Instant Answer responses into new area, ranging from sports to weather to government officials.
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23.1.2006 7 Questions Microsoft Must Answer Tomorrow
It's the eve of the software giant's annual Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting, and there are a few things we—and Microsoft's customers and partners should—want to know. Thanks to pacpis for the news.
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27.7.2007 Got Vista x64 questions? I've got answers
I got a lot of great questions and comments via e-mail and in the Talkback section of my previous post on the sudden surge in adoption rates for Windows Vista x64. In this follow-up, I summarize the answers I’ve found for each question.
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5.8.2008 Answers to Windows 7 upgrade questions
Every day for the past few months, I have received at least one question from readers wanting to know how the Windows 7 upgrade process will work.
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26.10.2009 Your top Windows 7 questions, answered
Since Windows 7 launched on October 22, my e-mail inbox has been deluged with questions, comments, and pleas for help.
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17.11.2009 Gates responds to questions about his stock sales
The recent jump in Microsoft's stock price was on the minds of shareholders during the company's annual meeting in Seattle this morning, but not necessarily with a sense of satisfaction. During the question-and-answer period, a couple of shareholders asked and commented about recent stock sales by Bill Gates and some other executives following the share increase.
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13.11.2007 Microsoft's Bing: 10 burning questions
Microsoft rolled out Bing sort of—it won’t be fully deployed until June 3—but questions already abound.
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29.5.2009 More information on the Open XML translator and some questions answered
There were a lot of great comments from last week's announcement about the creation of an open source project to transform between the Ecma Office Open XML formats and the OASIS OpenDocument format.
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12.7.2006 Windows Vista Content Protection - Twenty Questions (and Answers)
A conversation has cropped up since the recent publication of a paper scrutinizing how Windows handles digital rights management, especially for HD video. I've since looped back with Dave Marsh, a Lead Program Manager responsible for Windows' handling of video, to learn from him the implications involved and to learn to what extent the paper's assertions are accurate.
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23.1.2007 If You Were Bill Gates, What Would You Buy Next?
If Microsoft chairman Bill Gates gave you a blank check and asked you to spend it in ways that would improve Microsoft's bottom line, what would you do with it? We're not talking planes, trains and automobiles here; we're talking tech investments. We know Microsoft technical evangelist
Robert Scoble would go Web 2.0-crazy with his mad money. But what about you?
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4.2.2006 What's Next for Bill Gates? - Part 2
In Part 2 of Time's interview, the Microsoft chief talks about the battle against Google, Origami and other new products from the Microsoft machine
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12.3.2006 Bill Gates: How I work
Not much of a paper chase for Microsoft's chairman, who uses a range of digital tools to do business.
Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect, Microsoft, U.S.A.
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5.4.2006 Bill Gates' to-do list
NEW YORK--It's still a year before Bill Gates shifts from a full-time Microsoft worker to a part-timer. Which is good, because there's plenty he still wants to achieve.
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4.2.2007 Who will replace Bill Gates?
Since joining Microsoft I've heard Bills name in conversations with me so many times now that It's quite disturbing to be honest. In that, a lot of the time I get the "yeah well tell your buddy Bill..." or "..When you next See Gates..." piecemeal conversations.
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12.3.2007 Bill Gates wants to go to space
The world's richest man Bill Gates is considering a possible flight into space, a Russian cosmonaut said from International Space Station Wednesday, citing Gates' colleague, current space tourist Charles Simonyi.
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15.4.2007 Bill Gates Award
At the Company Meeting, it was announced that Dave Cutler won the new Bill Gates Award, which is meant to recognize those who have made the absolute highest contributions to Microsoft (the award will be given only in years in which a suitable candidate emerges, and Bill has promised to return to present it. It is different from the Gates Award for Global Health, which is given by his Foundation and is sometimes referred to incorrectly as the "Bill Gates Award").
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10.9.2007 The quotable Bill Gates
In the past several decades, Microsoft's departing leader has provided plenty of choice quotes for audiences to ponder.
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23.6.2008 Bill Gates Still the Richest Man
Microsoft chairman architect Bill Gates is still the wealthiest person in America with a total of $51 billion, according to Forbes' annual list. Four out the top five richest Americans represent the technology industry, with fellow Microsoft founder Paul Allen, Michael Dell and Larry Ellison trailing Warren Buffett.
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Bill Gates Turns 50
What to get for the guy who has everything, even a knighthood?
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Bill Gates - Too much money to tax
Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the world's richest man, said today the tax office in the US has to store his financial data on a special computer because his fortune is so vast.
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1.2.2006 Bill Gates, still the richest person
Microsoft's chief visionary moving further away from day-to-day corporate work. For the first time did not offer a strategy outlook at last year's financial analyst meeting. Instead, prefers to dive into innovative projects, foster collaboration among Microsoft's many divisions.
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10.3.2006 Bill Gates Spills About What's Next for Microsoft
In a two-part interview, Gates talks about the future of digital photography, search technology and more
TIME: How do you think about innovation? What are your cues? Is there a way you look at the world and derive a vision of the future? People wonder how Bill Gates comes up with the next big idea.
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11.3.2006 Bill Gates Wishes he Wasn't so Rich
The corporate leader says he doesn't like the attention of being the world's richest man.
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6.5.2006 MS KILL BILL AIO
Are you tired of dealing with the antics of Bill Gates and company from the small
town of Redmond? Are you willing to do something about it?
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15.2.2007 Little-Known Facts About Well-Known Leaders - Bill Gates
Everyone knows the most recent headlines about our country’s greatest leaders. In this feature, we’d like to shed some light on the lesser-known facts about these folks in hopes of giving you a little greater insight as to what makes them tick.
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23.6.2007 Bill Gates' new project: Farming
Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates announced a new direction Friday as he pledged $306 million in grants to develop farming in poor countries, leading the charge for corporate responsibility at a major meeting of business chiefs.
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26.1.2008 The secret of Bill Gates success
As Bill Gates prepares to end his full-time work at Microsoft, he tells the BBC in an interview that it wasn't just what Microsoft did, but what his rivals didn't do that let Microsoft get ahead.
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20.6.2008Put your questions to Bill Gates
Bill Gates is to answer your questions at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
The software supremo and co-founder of
Microsoft is preparing to step down from the helm of one of the largest and most powerful companies in the world.
As he gets
ready to leave, one of the most important men in technology over the last three decades has invited readers of the BBC News website to send him
questions about his life and career.
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02.01.2008Ask Bill Gates a question...
A sad day is approaching - the last day that Bill Gates will come to the UK for a Microsoft event. To mark the occasion, we're giving you all the
opportunity to ask Bill Gates (aka Bill G, Gatesy, Big Bill, B to the G) a question which will be answered at the Server and Tools partner pre-launch
event happening on 30th January.
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If partners want to ask Bill Gates a question before the event, how
can they do this?
We would love to pass your questions onto Bill, so if you have a burning question about whats in store for Microsoft in
the future, his thoughts on the IT industry, future technologies or how many friends he has on Facebook (!) then email
askbill@microsoft.com and we will pick the best ones and ask him
on the day.
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15.01.2008Video: Bill Gates Standford Speech
Larry Larsen: Jump over to
Channel 8 to see
Bill Gates speaking
at Standford. He talks about what types of computing devices and interfaces students may have in the future, talks about DreamSpark (free dev
software for students),
Imagine Cup (our own
Laura Foy is a
judge and captain this year!), and a few other things you won't want to miss. Also ends the speech with a live Q&A with guests at the end.
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21.02.2008Telecom Bill Overhaul Proposed
A bill has been introduced in
the U.S. House of
Representatives that is
intended to update the
country's telecommunications
laws and accommodate new
technologies, a congressional
aide said on Thursday. The
bill would limit state powers
in putting regulations on
broadband...
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17.09.2005Ask Bill Gates
Earlier this month NEWSWEEK invited readers to submit questions to Bill Gates about the work his foundation is doing on the problem of global health.
We received more than 400 questions, and forwarded a selection of them to Gates. Here are his answers:
How did you start thinking
about the Third World, when the whole world has been ignoring them?
Kumud B.
Melinda and I first got involved in global
health after reading an article about the huge impact of disease in poor countries. The article showed that every year millions of children die from
diseases that are completely preventable with effective, affordable vaccines. We thought, śThis cant be true. But if it is true, it should be the
priority of our giving.ť Since then, Melinda and I have traveled extensively in the developing world, and those experiences have had a big impact too.
When you have the opportunity to meet people in poor countries face to face, you quickly begin to see them as neighbors, not strangers. And when you
see the devastation of diseases like malaria or AIDS, you want to do all you can to help.
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11.10.2007BetaNews CES 2009 'Better Questions' contest
Before CES 2008, BetaNews debuted our "Better Questions" contest, where we asked you, the reader, what questions you wanted answered from the
CES floor. This year, we're asking you again...
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01.01.2009Using forums to answer
questions about Windows XP
Columnist Joli Ballew explains
how to successfully search for
solutions and post questions
in non-Microsoft discussion
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04.01.2006Bill Gates: Transitioning into the Future
Charles caught up with Bill to discuss his transition from full time at Microsoft to full time at his global philanthropic foundation (he will still
be involved with major decisions given that he will retain his post as the Chairman of Microsoft and his email address will still be functional).
Questions addressed in this conversation include: What's on Bill's mind as he prepares to step away from his full time
responsibilities at Microsoft? What was his rationale for making the decision? What was behind his decision to put Ray Ozzie in the role of Microsoft
Chief Software Architect? What does a CSA actually do? Why is Microsoft so focused on competing with Google and is search as important as we think?
What's top of mind for Bill that Developers who target our platform should pay attention to now and in the next decade? How can Microsoft become more
agile given the complexity that arises from so much asynchronous innovation spanning disparate product units? Why does Windows still matter in an
Internet world?
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24.06.2008French bill would ban Internet use for illegal downloaders
France's Cultural Minister Christine Albanel introduced a bill to discourage the consumption of pirated media, under the threat of revoking the
perpetrator's Internet access. Yesterday, that bill was approved by the Council of Ministers...
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20.06.2008Nokia 5800 XpressMusic hits a brick wall coming out of the gate
3G connectivity problems force a US sales halt to its most promising device.
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02.03.2009Bill Gates praises Steve Jobs for saving Apple
When asked about Steve Jobs in a TV special that aired this week, Bill Gates said the Apple co-founder has shown "more inspiration" than any other
leader in the tech industry.
The program "Warren Buffett and Bill Gates: Keeping America Great"
aired Thursday night on
CNBC. The
"Town Hall Event" featured questions from the audience directed towards two of the world's richest men...
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13.11.2009First Look: MobileMe promising, but limps out of the gate
It took a lot of patience, but BetaNews' Ed Oswald finally managed to take a look at Apple's MobileMe in detail, and ended up being quite impressed...
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12.07.2008Gates on OLPC, Windows Home Server
In addition to answering questions about how Microsoft plans to take on its rivals and capture the hearts and devices of consumers, Chairman Bill
Gates spoke to CNET News.com on other topics, not all of which fit into Monday's
Newsmaker piece. Here are a couple
more questions and answers from Gates.
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08.01.2008Bill Hill: Digital Democracy and the Declaration of Digital Independence
Bill Hill is one of the
Niners' favorite Microsoft
personalities. He is also a
legend around Microsoft and
within the typography
community. Bill spends most of
his time thinking about how to
make reading on a screen the
best possible experience for
human readers.
We wanted to find out
what's on Bill's mind these
days so we thought we'd have
a chat with Bill and Lake Bill
on crystal clear day was the
perfect setting for learning
about Bill's passion for
enabling digital democracy.
What's digital democracy?
Well, watch and listen to find
out. Bill has even written up
a Declaration of Digital
Independence.
Tune in. Bill Hill is on
Channel 9 again!
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18.08.2007Questions about Web Server Attacks
Bill Sisk: There have been conflicting public reports describing a recent rash of web server attacks. I want to bring some clarification about the
reports and point you to the IIS blog for additional information.
To begin with, our investigation has shown that there are no
new or unknown vulnerabilities being exploited. This wave is not a result of a vulnerability in Internet Information Services or Microsoft SQL Server.
We have also determined that these attacks are in no way related to Microsoft Security Advisory (951306).
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26.04.2008Intel Details New 45-nm Processor Fabrication Technique
Intel Corp. has disclosed more
details about its 45-nm
process, saying it is one of
the first chip makers to
implement high-k dielectrics
and metal gates into the
technology. Using an
undisclosed thick
hafnium-based material for its
high-k films in gate-stack
applications, Intel claims
that it is able to boost the
overall performance, while
also reducing transistor
leakage by more than 10 times
over current silicon dioxide
technology.
Intel's 45-nm process,
dubbed P1266, is said to
incorporate copper
interconnects, low-k
dielectrics, strained silicon
and other features. Intel said
it will use a new material
with a property called high-k,
for the transistor gate
dielectric, and a new
combination of metal materials
for the transistor gate
electrode. NEC Corp. and IBM
Corp. have both disclosed they
are moving high-k into
production.
''As more and more
transistors are packed onto a
single piece of silicon, the
industry continues to research
current leakage reduction
solutions. Our implementation
of novel high-k and metal gate
transistors for our 45-nm
process technology will help
Intel deliver even faster,
more energy efficient
multi-core products that build
upon our successful Intel Core
2 and Xeon family of
processors, and extend
Moore's Law well into the
next decade ,'' said Mark
Bohr, Intel Senior Fellow.
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27.01.2007House Approves Another Anti-Spyware Bill
While a bill passed by the
House last month put stricter
requirements on software to
protect consumers from
spyware, the body has passed
another bill with even
stricter policies...
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07.06.2007CES 2008 'Better Questions' contest winners
After culling through over 300 entries, we have selected the best questions from our CES contest and attempted to find the answers...
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12.01.2008Determining When to Buy a New PC
There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers. Everybody has questions
about them, and we aim to help.
Here are a few questions about computers I've received recently from people like you, and my
answers. I have edited and restated the questions a bit, for readability. This week my mailbox contained questions about watching high-definition
television in real time on a Mac, the future of Palm's Treo, and remote desktop control.
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01.11.2007House Bill Seeks to Exempt Backups from DMCA Violation
In an announcement this
afternoon prior to the
publication of the bill by the
Library of Congress, two
prominent representatives
introduced a bill that
apparently would grant a new
exemption for private,
non-commercial copies of
digital content, from
violation of the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act -
technically creating a new
class of "Section 1201
exemptions."..
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