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.
Determined to outduel Bill Gates Lotus founder Mitch Kapor is in search of an Outlook killer which promises to be a blast from the past, and open source.
The next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, isn't due for a few years. But Microsoft has recently divulged more information on the OS, which promises to be a significant upgrade.
Microsoft has changed the look and feel of its venerable browser, while adding some much-needed security features.
Microsoft aims to integrate fundamental changes and upgrades in the next version of its Windows operating system. We take an early look at the alpha version.
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.
Even after all his triumphs, Bill Gates is still a gambling man.
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.
Kicking off what he called the "live era" of software, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said on Tuesday in the United States that the company plans to launch new Internet-based complements to its core products.
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 a rare joint interview, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer discuss ad-supported software, the battles against Sony and Google, and what's so great about the upcoming Vista.
In the five years since Bill Gates surprised the technology world by announcing he would give up his title as chief executive at Microsoft, has the company changed?
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