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Stories of the month - January 2008

News The annual CES consumer gadget extravaganza in Las Vegas was by all accounts something of a damp squib this year, despite it being the swansong for Microsoft's Bill Gates. Inevitably the post-Christmas January blues prompts many people into looking... [30 Jan 2008]

Photos of the month - January 2008

Photo Bill Gates gave his last speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in which he offered his predictions for 2008 and had a musical moment with ex Guns 'n' Rose guitarist Slash. Following Bill Gates' appearance at CES with Slash, we... [30 Jan 2008]

Photos: When tech chiefs rock out...

Photo In Las Vegas Gates played a replica Les Paul guitar from computer game Guitar Hero, while Slash played the real thing next to him. Here he is jamming at the Comdex tech show in Las Vegas in 2002. Here's Intel chairman (then CEO), Craig Barrett... [22 Jan 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 11.01.08

Round-Up Microsoft chairman Bill Gates took his final bow on stage at the CES show in Las Vegas this weekend. However, the highlight of the keynote was probably the five-minute skit entitled 'Bill Gates' Last Day at Microsoft', which was essentially a... [11 Jan 2008]

Terabyte storage heading for consumer market

News Hitachi is also launching a one terabyte hard drive for desktops this year aimed squarely at the home PC user, while Microsoft chairman Bill Gates - speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this year - said a server for the... [22 May 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 09.02.07

Round-Up So here's the scenario: Bill Gates, Mitchell and Webb, Tony Blair and a mysterious stranger in a black-hooded cloak are trapped in a lift in a plush Las Vegas hotel. Recently, departing Microsoft supremo Bill Gates got a bit hot under his plaid Gap... [09 Feb 2007]

Photos of the month - January 2007

Photo With Vista's commercial launch fast approaching, Microsoft unveiled the first new PCs and laptops designed for the Windows Vista operating system at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas at the start of the month. [31 Jan 2007]

Apple vs Microsoft: Close call for digital living room

News Apple and Microsoft are among the big names battling to dominate digital home entertainment - with the Redmond behemoth launching a home server at last week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which its chairman Bill Gates hopes will become... [15 Jan 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 12.01.07

Round-Up Like a washed-up gambler eyeing his final chip on the roulette layout, the eyes of the technology industry have been focusing to squinting point on Las Vegas this week. Gates - whose penultimate CES keynote proved a hotter Vegas ticket than Prince... [12 Jan 2007]

Leader: Consumer tech is changing the enterprise

Leader One lucky silicon.com reporter spent this week in Las Vegas at the manic and gigantic Consumer Electronics Show. Bill Gates noted this blurring of lines between business and consumer IT during his keynote speech at the conference on Sunday. [11 Jan 2007]

Gates plans a server for every home

News Not content with his earlier goal for a PC on every desk and in every home, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates revealed plans for a Windows server for the home at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Sunday. [08 Jan 2007]

Photos: Top of YouTube - 10 clips taking the net by storm

Photo A mint-powered version of the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas, the video was made by "the mad scientists" at EepyBird.com. Here someone has strung together memorable Microsoft clips, such as Bill Gates getting hit by a pie, the infamous CES... [21 Jul 2006]

Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates

Comment To try to capture - and participate - in some of the buzz around web 2.0, Microsoft organised a conference in Las Vegas called Mix '06 aimed at web developers and designers. After his keynote speech at the conference on Monday, Microsoft chairman... [22 Mar 2006]

Gates: Let's talk about web apps

News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates reached out to web developers at a conference in Las Vegas on Monday, in a keynote speech which picked up on the growing popularity of web technologies. Gates was speaking at Mix '06 in Las Vegas, the first edition of... [21 Mar 2006]

Microsoft: Vista test update on the way

News The company is trying to rebut the notion that Vista is primarily a consumer release, a perception that was fuelled by Bill Gates' Vista demonstration at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Microsoft said on Wednesday it is releasing an... [23 Feb 2006]

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