Bill Gates releases swarm of mosquitoes on TED audience
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has released a swarm of mosquitoes into an audience at a technology and design conference in California.
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5.2.2009 First Microsoft Genuine Office Validation Download on Download Center
Microsoft has posted the first Office download which has Genuine Office Validation (not required yet). It is sounds.exe the download enables sound in Office 2000,XP and 2003.
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28.4.2006 Best Gates Keynote Ever!
I just watched the keynote presentation which kicks off the 2006 CES, featuring, of course, Bill Gates. It was definitely his best presentation ever.
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26.1.2006 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 Gates on Vista, Linux and more
Bill Gates is pretty confident that when he spots an emerging technology, it will emerge. Exactly when that happens, though, is sometimes a question mark.
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18.11.2006 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 Microsoft's Mundie looks beyond Gates
Craig Mundie is trying to fill Bill Gates shoes. Well, at least one of them. Thanks to bdh734 for this post.
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18.7.2007 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 Gates still has a long to-do list
For years, the Microsoft chairman has been a fiery advocate, inside the company and out, for the notion that computers should be controlled, not just by mouse and keyboard, but also by more natural means, such as voice, touch and digital ink.
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19.10.2007 Gates on Yahoo: It's the people
Bill Gates is willing to pay a lot for engineering talent.
Asked what makes Yahoo worth more than $40 billion, Gates pointed not to the company's products, its huge base of advertisers, or its market share, but rather to the company's engineers.
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19.2.2008 Gates: Windows 7 may come 'in the next year'
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Friday indicated that Windows 7, the next major version of Windows, could come within the next year, far ahead of the development schedule previously indicated by the software maker.
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5.4.2008 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?
Bill Gates turns 50 today, and such a landmark age deserves a landmark party. Official details were scant with a likely understated acknowledgment that he'll be "spending time privately with friends." common -
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Gates: Microsoft Not Afraid of Google
In an interview with an Israeli newspaper, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said that his company sees Google as a threat, but is by no means scared of the growing search giant. Gates, however, did agree with the assessment that Google is Microsoft's primary competitor. But he said company has plans that will take effect over the next six months, which it hopes will cut into the Google's dominance in the Web search market.
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21.11.2005 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 Gates pumps money into ethanol
According to an SEC filing, the Microsoft chairman holds a 25.5% stake in corn-fuel maker Pacific Ethanol.
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25.4.2006 Gates: Microsoft will keep Google honest
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."
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4.5.2006 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 Gates opens entertainment window
Though Bill Gates is in town to tout his hot new Xbox 360 to the hordes in attendance at the huge Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), his horizon extends to the Hollywood hills ? and beyond.
Video games are key, but the Microsoft chairman also has his hand in much of the behind-the-scenes wrangling over entertainment and the Internet.
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12.5.2006 Gates, Google Convene In Switzerland
High-tech luminaries prepare to talk about technology and philanthropy at this week's World Economic Forum. Led by Microsoft's Bill Gates and Google's Eric Schmidt, the U.S. high-tech industry is well represented at the World Economic Forum, which opens Wednesday in Davos, Switzerland.
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24.1.2007 Little-Known Facts About Well-Known Leaders - Bill Gates
Everyone knows the most recent headlines about our countrys greatest leaders. In this feature, wed 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 Gates Will Keynote 2008 CES
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) announced today that top executives from Microsoft, Panasonic and Intel will deliver keynote addresses at the 2008 International CES.
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7.7.2007 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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26.1.2008Gates sets TED a-buzzing (and a-swatting)
Bill Gates certainly knows how to get one's attention when he wants to. According to a FOX News report, he did so at the latest TED conference by
unleashing a jar full of mosquitoes on the crowd...
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06.02.2009Inside Bill Gates' real Facebook account
Ever wondered what Bill Gates' Facebook really looks like? This week, reports have surfaced that Bill Gates stopped using Facebook because too
many people wanted to add him as a friend. Gates told an audience in New Delhi he had tried out Facebook but ended up with "10,000 people wanting to
be my friends". According to Gates he had trouble figuring out who was a real friend and who was not, "It was just way too much trouble so I gave it
up," Gates told the business forum. Over the years that Facebook has been operating there have been many parody and fake screen shots of Bill's
Facebook pages but Neowin can reveal Gates' true Facebook page today.
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26.07.2009Gates Pokes Fun at $100 Laptop
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates
derided the $100 laptop being
developed by the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Wednesday, criticizing its
lack of features. Gates has
been described as privately
bitter over MIT's decision to
reject using Windows on the
device...
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16.03.2006Gates: Microsoft Not Afraid of
Google
In an interview with an
Israeli newspaper, Microsoft
chairman Bill Gates said that
his company sees Google as a
threat, but is by no means
scared of the growing search
giant. Gates, however, did
agree with the assessment that
Google is Microsoft's primary
competitor...
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27.10.2005Gates: MS 'Must Act' on Web
Services
Microsoft is not about to take
the Web 2.0 revolution sitting
down, says Bill Gates. In an
internal e-mail sent out
October 30 and obtained by
BetaNews on Wednesday, Gates
writes that Microsoft must
change to take advantage of
the evolution of computing
from a software-based to a
Web-based model...
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10.11.2005Silverlight 2 Beta 2 arrives on time, available now
As promised by Bill Gates
earlier this week,
Microsoft has now released
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 as a 4.66MB
download. The
Silverlight homepage does not yet have the new download links, but as things change
(like the Mac installer being posted), this post will be updated. Just like previous Silverlight betas, the installation is very quick and the browser
may have to be restarted for the changes to take effect.
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07.06.2008Gates says retirement from Microsoft means he'll still be around
BIll Gates is scheduled to retire from Microsoft on July 1, shifting his efforts over to his namesake foundation. But Wednesday night at the Wall
Street Journal's D conference, Gates clarified what he means by "retirement," which involves him sticking around Microsoft part time...
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28.05.2008Transcript: Bill Gates
Executive Memo
Microsoft chairman and chief
software architect Bill Gates
sent the following memo to
fellow executives on October
30, calling for the company to
make changes in response to
the coming "services
wave." Gates says
Microsoft must act quickly and
decisively to figure out the
best way to deliver
service-enabled experiences...
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10.11.2005Fortune: Gates No Longer Richest Man
An era has come to an end,
says Fortune , as Bill
Gates is no longer the
world's richest man,
according to the magazine's
latest tally. Mexican telecom
billionaire Carlos Slim has
surpassed the Microsoft
founder with an estimated
worth of $59 billion compared
to Gates' $58 billion...
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07.08.2007Bill Gates sees processor clock speeds to top out at 10 GHz
Less than a year from his
previously announced departure
from the company he
co-founded, the Bill Gates
today outlined his vision and
opportunities for
Microsoft.
According to Gates, there
are currently six trends,
which will be determining
Microsoft and its product
strategy for the years to
come. In a rather unusual way,
he mentioned the dramatic
changes in the way the
hardware engines that will be
fueling new applications are
engineered.
The fact that performance
advances have shifted from a
pure increase of clock speed
to increased parallelism was
described by Gates as a
challenge. He believes that
parallel execution will be
the primary way silicon power
will be delivered down the
road and not so much the fact
that there is more clock speed
available. According to Gates,
microprocessors will get to 10
GHz, but not much further
() even 5 to 6 years out...
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26.07.2007Bill Gates on Chrome OS and browsers
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has revealed that he is "surprised people are acting like there's something new" in Google's recently
announced Chrome operating system, during an interview with CNET News. Just yesterday Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer also seemed to dismiss Chrome OS,
although both Ballmer and Gates admitted that with Google saying so little about their latest project it is hard to know exactly what it will be and
therefore discuss it in detail. "In any case, you should make them be concrete about what they're doing," Gates said in regards to the lack of
information. "It is kind of a typical thing.
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16.07.2009Bill Gates introduces Bill Gates
Bill Gates gave a big speech Thursday night about eradicating disease, saving the world, and other stuff like that. But for pure entertainment value
-- and impact -- he was completely upstaged by his dad. Here's how Bill Gates Sr. introduced his son at the Rotary Club of Seattle's centennial
dinner...
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06.03.2009Gates Calls AJAX 'Very Complex,' Touts Silverlight as an Alternative
During a Strategic Account
Summit meeting in Seattle for
investors and analysts
yesterday, Microsoft Chairman
Bill Gates downplayed the role
of AJAX in future Web
development. Gates said this
immediately following a
demonstration of Silverlight
created for Major League
Baseball, one of whose
principal virtues is that its
back end is written in C# - a
language not all Web
developers relish having to
learn...
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09.05.2007Bill Gates on Project Natal and Windows
Project Natal was unveiled as a revolutionary new gesture-based controller for the Xbox 360 during this year's E3 games expo, but while you may be
looking forward to using it to control games in your living room it could also find its way into your office, according to Bill Gates. In an
interview with CNET News, the Microsoft chairman and former CEO Bill Gates revealed that the company is looking at ways of using the Project Natal
hardware with Windows PCs through the same "software libraries and applications." The ideas started in Microsoft Research, which is the "crown
jewel in terms of always feeding neat new things into Microsoft" in the eyes of Gates.
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16.07.2009Bye, Bill. A fond remembrance
On this final day of Bill Gates' salaried employ at the company he founded, we recall a period of history way, way back -- an era when Gates was one
giant among many, and just as likely to survive the shakeout as any other...
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28.06.2008Gates: Blu-ray DRM is
'Anti-Consumer'
As part of a speaking tour at
universities across the United
States, Microsoft chairman
Bill Gates sat down with
Princeton's newspaper to
discuss the road ahead. When
asked why Microsoft chose to
support HD DVD over Sony's
Blu-ray format, Gates replied
that Blu-ray's copyright
protection scheme is
"anti-consumer."..
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18.10.2005Gates Promises 'Magic' Transformation of Telecommunications Through UC
Gates officially launched his company's Unified Communications platform, which will include a new class of telecommunications server product whose
objective is to replace the office PBX...
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17.10.2007Bill Gates unleashes mosquito swarm on TED crowd
Every year, TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conference brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged
to give the talk of their lives. Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman, who retired last year to devote himself into the Bill & Melinda Foundation, was
invited to speak at TED Conference this year devoted to "Great Unveilings." Gates Foundation has been recently working on ending Malaria and has
spent millions fighting the disease. Malaria is a dreadful disease affecting only poor countries and it looks Bill Gates wanted everybody to have a
feel of it at the TED conference!
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05.02.2009Gates to Speak at Harvard Commencement
Harvard University has
announced that it has selected
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates
to be its keynote speaker
during the commencement
ceremony scheduled for June 7...
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23.03.2007Live running analysis from the Bill Gates keynote
It is the annual ritual event that officially marks the end of the holiday season: the Bill Gates keynote at CES...
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