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Why I'm planning a change of career
Comment Tonight, for example, I've just wasted an hour trying to install a tablet driver for my daughter's PC under Microsoft Vista, an OS I resent with a passion normally reserved for Hazel Blears. Bill Gates is just the most recent example of a big name... [17 Jul 2008]
Bill Gates on the future, the past and the brilliance of fertilizer…
Comment For me, I'd pick, like, tablet or interactive TV that are, according to me - but I've been over-optimistic before - on the verge of big, big impact. So, I've been sending a lot of mail to the tablet and interactive TV team, sort of sending the mail... [26 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.01.08
Round-Up Past keynote addresses have introduced Tablet PCs and various digital household objects that, truthfully, have yet to enter the mainstream with any particular success. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates took his final bow on stage at the CES show in Las... [11 Jan 2008]
Bill Gates sings at CES for one last time
News Past keynote addresses have introduced Tablet PCs and various digital household objects that have yet to enter the mainstream. Bill Gates may be stepping away from full-time work later this year but he still has a few things he wants to show off. [07 Jan 2008]
Gates: 'My work here is not yet done'
News The Tablet PC, a frequent staple of Gates' Comdex keynote speeches in the 1990s, remains a fairly niche product. While chairman Bill Gates is preparing to shift to part-time work at Microsoft next year, he's still a fiery advocate for the notion... [19 Oct 2007]
Photos of the month - January 2007
Photo Pictured is the Toshiba Portege R400 that comes sporting the all-singing Windows Vista Ultimate edition, an 80GB hard drive, a swivel 21.1-inch screen that turns into a tablet and a secondary side display for real-time email. [31 Jan 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 19.08.05
Round-Up But in a very mixed list Bill Gates actually found himself next to Moses - though to be fair to Moses, he did come up with the Tablet concept long before Gates, even if his crude early version only had the capacity for 10 short messages. [19 Aug 2005]
Gates: The internet could do better
News That portable [device] will get even smaller and will turn into a tablet device where pen-and-ink can be used as well as the keyboard. Addressing a conference of more than 7,000 IT professionals, government officials and students in Singapore, Bill... [01 Jul 2005]
5 years ago... McNealy tells Microsoft: it's 'Game Over'
News The Smartphone has been one in-road, the tablet PC another. As ever, McNealy's prediction was spot on and those of you will long memories will recollect that the large US software firm founded by the now-forgotten former billionaire Bill Gates went... [14 Oct 2004]
Gates Q&A: So what's up with Longhorn?
Comment We had the releases we'd always had planned, the Media (a new version of Windows XP Media Center) and Tablet. Shortly after announcing that the long-awaited Longhorn operating systems will ship in late 2006, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates spoke... [31 Aug 2004]
Microsoft reveals latest on Longhorn release
News The software maker has not had a full release of its desktop operating system since Windows XP debuted in October 2001, although the company has shipped specialised versions of the operating system, such as the Tablet PC and Media Center editions. [31 Aug 2004]
Windows XP SP 2... ready at last!
News Microsoft said the release of SP2 also brings with it major improvements to two specialized versions of Windows XP: the Tablet PC and Media Center editions. The new tablet operating system, for example, includes improved handwriting recognition and... [09 Aug 2004]
Bill Gates touts software's 'final frontier'
News On the product front the main announcement was the release of a Windows XP Tablet PC operating system by "the middle of next year" with "substantial advances" in the quality of ink to text translation, as well as the news that Nationwide has... [17 Nov 2003]
Gates to kick off a more serious Comdex
News Microsoft's Bill Gates will celebrate 20 years of speaking at the conference by opening proceedings with his Sunday evening keynote, which is expected to cover the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and the future of technology - although even he has... [14 Nov 2003]
Through the fog... Better connecting users to technologies
Comment And more recently, we’ve been road testing tablet PCs and their suitability for various application types and looking at peer-to-peer collaboration tools such as Groove Networks. Out of the box the applications seem useful but not compelling... [05 Jun 2003]
