Bill Gates, the man who started Microsoft and has been its public face throughout its three decades of existence, plans to step away from daily work at the company.
Jim Allchin, to some Microsoft's biggest geek after Bill Gates, is retiring at the end of 2006. His legacy: Windows on almost every desktop.
The antitrust investigation into Microsoft's activities lasted nearly half a decade, but by the time regulators finally came to a landmark conclusion, Microsoft had already established its position and the rival product was all but defunct.
Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy has launched so many wicked verbal attacks on Microsoft over the years that Microsoft's nearly US$2 billion settlement could be considered hush money. Here's a sampling of his jabs.
The SCO Group filed lawsuits this week against DaimlerChrysler and AutoZone, but the Unix seller's attorneys also had prepared a complaint against Bank of America, according to a document.
Reactions to Apple Computer's new flat-panel iMac are ranging from "ooh" to "huh?"
The authoring tool of choice for long, structured print documents has been Adobe FrameMaker. The latest release, Adobe FrameMaker 6.0 (ERP AU$1,754.50, upgrade AU$389.40), is proof that you can teach an old dog new tricks,"especially with the help of a third-party developer.
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