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The Weekly Round-Up: 11.01.08
Round-Up He's so focused," opines long-time friend and CEO Steve Ballmer, as Bill drives to work with his briefcase on the roof of his Lexus. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates took... [11 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.09.05
Round-Up And speaking of Ballmer and his good friend Bill Gates, the pair of them were working hard this week to promote the launch of Windows Office 12. Most of these people asking them for help... [16 Sep 2005]
Empty sounds, Holloway gestures? Microsoft UK chief talks shop
Comment But not for much longer, according to one close friend. We all know of Ellison's yachting adventures or Gates' penchant for high-tech houses or McNealy's dentist bill. He's a hell of a... [16 May 2001]
The Weekly Round-Up: 05.03.04
Round-Up While many iPod users will be Mac fans the majority of people buying the bi-platform MP3 player are likely to be Windows PC users and it seems Steve Jobs may have just done his old friend Bill... [05 Mar 2004]
Editor's Blog: Ever hear the one about the happy Vista user?
Comment I was talking to a friend of mine in the pub after work the other day. My friend rather smugly revealed that he had just got a new laptop from his employer. Vista", he told me, nodding proudly like a new... [15 Jan 2008]
Ballmer: Settlement destroys our ability to "compete and innovate"
News If you get a certain version of Windows it has a certain type of user interface, you can ask a friend to help, it runs certain types of applications and it does support a certain ser of hardware devices. [05 Mar 2002]
Photos: Bill Gates at Live 8
Photo Bill Gates' good friend and fellow drum beater for many a worthy cause, Bono, was also present at the huge London event. Bill Gates takes to the stage... [04 Jul 2005]
Gates joins Buffett at investment firm
News In doing so, Gates will serve as an advisor to longtime friend and Berkshire Hathaway chief executive Warren Buffett. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates was elected on... [15 Dec 2004]
Update: Billionaire Buffett gives $30bn to Gates Foundation
News Buffett, a long-time friend of Gates, said he chose to allocate the bulk of his wealth to the Gates Foundation after becoming familiar with the organisation and the results it had... [27 Jun 2006]
Photos: Top 5 Bill Gates moments
Photo Here's Gates with another friend from the music world. ¦ Photos: Bill Gates through the ages ¦ Photos: The building of a data centre ¦ Photos: The best of Google Earth... [23 Jun 2008]
Ballmer and Gates are drop outs, says Sun boss
News McNealy's jibe relates to the fact that Microsoft's billionaire chairman and chief software architect famously dropped out of Harvard to set up Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. He joked that a lot of... [01 Aug 2003]
What was your first computer?
News The Joy of Specs - in memory of our long lost rubber-keyed friend.http://www.silicon.com/a50364 Our first brush with Bill Gates, and we didn't even know it.http://www.silicon.com/a50999... [14 Jan 2003]
Photos of the month - January 2007
Photo Pictured is astronaut Thomas Reiter with his hand-held friend. Microsoft's long-awaited Vista operating system finally got its consumer launch in London with Bill Gates there for the... [31 Jan 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.05.05
Round-Up However, one plucky inventor thinks he may have struck upon the answer with an invention called 'The-Leash'.silicon.com received an email which stated: "A friend of mine, a NEW YORK NATIVE has developed a device that is... [20 May 2005]
The Bloor Perspective: The end of the anti-Microsoft alliance, irrefutable Web transactions, and Uncle Sam versus Gates and Co.
Comment And Oracle hasn't exactly been helping things with its attacks on IBM's new friend Siebel. When all the companies feared dominance by Microsoft, their policy was that the enemy's enemy must be a friend. [08 May 2000]
