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The Weekly Round-Up: 27.06.08
Round-Up This week, after 30-odd years at the helm of the company he founded with Paul Allen, Gates formally left Microsoft, driving back home like any other retiring office worker. Albeit an office worker who lives in a high-tech mansion that cost $140m. [27 Jun 2008]
Bill Gates on the future, the past and the brilliance of fertilizer…
Comment I'd come into this office and meet myself and I'd say, well, are you still reading all the code? You have too many people, and just the cost structure would blow my mind, because I was thinking, okay, should we let people have two chairs in their... [26 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tech skills slump, gov't snooping, Segway safety
Comment British employers treat IT staff like office furniture, like non-value-based commodities rather than assets. Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ The Naked CIO: Madness in the method ... [22 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08
Round-Up Office workers across the UK were urged to stay at home yesterday. And the rest of them got a bit lonely and were grateful to return to the warm embrace of silicon.com towers this morning, vowing never to leave the office again, or at least not... [16 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.05.08
Round-Up The HMRC has discussed 11 data security incidents involving customer information with the Information Commissioner's Office since April 2005, has stopped data transfers unless there is a business critical need, and now demands adequate security... [02 May 2008]
The ISO is right to back Microsoft's OOXML
Comment Beyond questions of fitness for purpose, there are bigger concerns about a standards body making decisions that could perpetuate an effective monopoly - in this case, Microsoft Office on the desktop. It is also claimed that everyone would dearly... [04 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.02.08
Round-Up The office of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. The meeting is interrupted as a roller-blading product manager crashes into the glass wall of the office suffering multiple fractures. We only launched them to annoy Microsoft. [08 Feb 2008]
How to give tech to those on less than $1 a day
Comment The main issue that is thrown at Microsoft is the cost of its software - from Windows through Office to other tools. But this tends to affect those on more formal licence agreements or in more affluent areas, whereas for qualifying governments... [07 Feb 2008]
The truth about software as a service
Comment For Google, applications mean office tools: calendars, spreadsheets, word processors and so on - a direct challenge to Microsoft's hugely popular Office products - but all delivered on-demand via a web browser from one of Google's glistening data... [23 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.01.08
Round-Up However, the highlight of the keynote was probably the five-minute skit entitled 'Bill Gates' Last Day at Microsoft', which was essentially a mockumentary of chairman Bill's last day in the office. You can check out a video of Gates' final CES... [11 Jan 2008]
Bill Gates Q&A: On why 'it's all about software'
Comment It was only three years after I started Microsoft that I went over to Apple and did Applesoft Basic for the Apple II and Office for the Mac as a product. If so, what does it mean for Microsoft? But it's unclear whether Microsoft's dominance in the... [08 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.01.08
Round-Up So next time you complain about having to patch dozens of computers in the office, take a moment to think how tough it is to try and reboot a PC and get it to fire off tens of thousands of dollars worth of fireworks in front of thousands of... [04 Jan 2008]
Data encryption brought into focus by HMRC
Comment The Information Commissioner's Office expects that an organisation's security policy and practices should reflect the technology that is available. M is for Microsoft Paul Bentham explains why it is important government staff adhere to guidelines... [21 Dec 2007]
How closely are you monitoring?
Comment A PC will give systems management tools a certain amount of information back through the Windows management instrumentation (WMI) built into Windows, says David Solin, R&D solutions architect within the CTO's office at software vendor BMC. [10 Dec 2007]
Eric Schmidt
AS Profile The Postini buy further bolsters Google's move into the hosted web application market by adding security and encryption protection to Google's range of web-based email, messaging and office suite of applications. [12 Oct 2007]
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