COMMENTARY--One year ago, Bill Gates challenged his Microsoft troops to make the company's products more trustworthy. What's been accomplished? A bit. What still needs to be done? A lot.
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The software maker launches its first major update to the browser in years, offering tabbed browsing and security additions.
Microsoft has changed the look and feel of its venerable browser, while adding some much-needed security features.
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A decade after warning staff to brace for the Internet boom, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is rallying the troops again to face the challenge from Web-based, ad-supported software. In a memo sent late last month, Gates gave his view of the realities of online competition.
2007 was an eventful year for Microsoft, with the company playing what it considered to be its trump card (only to discover Vista wasn't trumps, XP was). But the lovable giant had its fingers in many other pies -- making for a year of management changes, entry into unclaimed markets and new alliances.
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Aiming to stir up the same kind of momentum as his Internet Tidal Wave memo of a decade earlier, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has penned a memo outlining the challenges Microsoft faces from a host of online competitors.
After months of touting Vista's geekier side, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on Wednesday highlighted features designed to convince the average consumer that they need the next version of Windows.
From Blaster Worm to Blue Hat, we bring you a complete retrospective on the evolution of Microsoft's security strategy over the last decade. Step onboard as we chart the triumphs and tragedies as the Microsoft engineers battled the tides of internet hackers, transforming them from adversaries to unlikely allies.
Microsoft's chairman looks ahead to how the music player might morph and tells why changes in Office 2007 are "such a big deal."
In an exclusive interview, Microsoft's chairman says the decision to remove WinFS means "the glass is three-quarters full."
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