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  • Microsoft brings Office to business IM

    Microsoft has added the Office moniker to its upcoming enterprise instant-messaging software in a branding move intended to heighten the product's appeal to potential business buyers.

  • Gates memo warns of 'disruptive' changes

    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.

  • Machiavelli, schizophrenia and Microsoft's never-ending story

    Unless one side or another decides to appeal, Friday's decision could mark the final chapter in a case once said to be a definitive one for antitrust law in the 21st century.

  • Microsoft in 'trouble' as Bill Gates leaves

    A Harvard University dropout who ushered in the home computer age and made billions of dollars along the way will have his last official day of work at Microsoft on 27 June.

  • Gates-Ballmer relationship marred by rifts

    Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have been close friends and business partners for nearly 30 years. But the two sometimes clashed over sharing power at Microsoft, particularly before Ballmer's rise to the CEO slot.

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  • Gates: Longhorn changed to make deadlines

    In an exclusive interview, Microsoft's chairman says the decision to remove WinFS means "the glass is three-quarters full."

  • Gates on Google

    Google has emerged as the poster child for a new wave of applications assembled from the piece-parts of several Web sites. No Windows necessary but Microsoft has its own ideas, of course.

  • Gates explains why Microsoft needs Yahoo

    For a man a few months away from leaving his job, Bill Gates has a lot on his mind.

  • Gates still has unfinished business

    Boosting adoption of voice-control and multitouch tech are among the items on the agenda of Microsoft's chairman, even as he moves closer to a part-time role.

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