The One Laptop Per Child project and Microsoft announced Thursday that indeed the XO laptop will be available in both Linux and Windows varieties. The companies plan to sell a Windows-powered XO in five or six countries starting next month, with a broader release in August or September.
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on Friday preached the "magic of software" to a packed ballroom at Howard University in Washington and said it's up to today's generation of college students to drive innovation in the future.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will increase its contribution to a global health initiative by US$250 million, the Microsoft chairman said on Monday.
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.
Just days before he finally hangs up his hat as Microsoft's figurehead and inspiration (on 27 June), ZDNet.com.au looks back at Bill Gates' career over the past 30 years.
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Free Software Foundation President Richard Stallman says Microsoft's chairman is blurring the issue of software patents.
US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.
On the eve of Windows XP's launch, I joined 14 other journalists for a private dinner with the chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft. We had one thing in common: When Bill talks, we write about it. And on this night he was talking, and just to us. Here's part one of what Bill had to say.
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