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  • Liberals back charity against Gates

    The Victorian state government is being urged to assist PCs for Kids in its ongoing dispute with Microsoft over copyright laws.

  • Bill Gates takes the stage at Live8

    Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates made a surprise appearance at the Live8 concert in London's Hyde Park on Saturday to urge world leaders to do more to ease the problem of Africa's crippling debt and extreme poverty.

  • Gates doubles funding for health initiative

    The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will increase its contribution to a global health initiative by US$250 million, the Microsoft chairman said on Monday.

  • Gates foundation to promote synthetic biology

    The emerging field of synthetic biology -- creating organisms in the lab that act like those found in nature -- received a big boost Monday in the form of a $42.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

  • Charity wins global support in Microsoft dispute

    An Australian charity has received applause from around the world after standing up to Microsoft Australia in a dispute over software licences.

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  • Commentary: For and against Gate's 'creative capitalism'

    Two writers from ZDNet.com.au's sister site CNET News.com, Michael Kanellos and Declan McCullagh, debate Bill Gates' call for businesses to allocate resources that could alleviate problems in the developing world.

  • Why Bill Gates' anti-spam plan won't work

    The end of spam is near! And it's going to come, Bill Gates predicted at the World Economic Forum, because we're going to make it unprofitable to send. Is he for real?

  • What's on their mind? Linux and IBM

    The mind-bending spectacle of Steve Ballmer and Scott McNealy swapping Detroit Red Wings jerseys and yukking it up onstage at a swank San Francisco hotel made for a fetching photo opportunity.

  • Symantec and Sophos ANZ square off

    The men at the helm of two of Australia's largest security software companies check each other's defences. Additional reading: Microsoft launches Australian security effort

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