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Gates retains 'wealthiest' crown

News Tech industry billionaires dominated Forbes' latest list of the United States' wealthiest people, with Bill Gates and his $51 billion fortune again topping the list. With the exception of legendary investor Warren Buffett, whose $40 billion net...

26 September 2005, 8:57 > More matches in News

Gates: 'Information overload' is overhyped

News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on Thursday countered the popular notion that workers are universally overloaded with too much information. Speaking to a crowd of chief executives, Gates cited the need for access to even more data in areas such as...

20 May 2005, 9:08 > More matches in News

Gates looking at Web beyond Windows

News Chairman Bill Gates on Monday delivered a keynote speech in Las Vegas at Mix '06, the first edition of a Microsoft conference aimed at developers building new-style online applications that combine Web and mobile access.

21 March 2006, 10:44 > More matches in News

Gates keynote: move along, folks, nothing to see

Digital Living Ah, the Bill Gates keynote. This year Gates had some clean-up to do. Last year's keynote was embarrassing: pretty much every real Microsoft product demonstrated failed, and the company's discomfiture was compounded by the evening's host, Conan O...

6 January 2006, 9:57 > More matches in Digital Living

Gates considers attack of the Xbox clones...

News Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is dropping hints that he may be ready to license the brains of the Xbox gaming device to other companies. In an interview with Nikkei Newspaper in Tokyo, Gates was asked whether Microsoft would consider opening the...

1 July 2005, 10:00 > More matches in News

Gates tempts students with US university talks

News Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Friday preached the "magic of software" to a packed ballroom at Howard University and said it's up to today's generation of college students to drive innovation in the future.

17 October 2005, 9:57 > More matches in News

Gates to free-software makers: keep the day job

News Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates met this week with CNET.co.uk's sister site News.com in conjunction with the company's Professional Developers Conference. In a conversation that covered topics ranging from Windows Vista to Google APIs, Gates also...

16 September 2005, 9:43 > More matches in News

Gates on software innovation: 'There's a magic threshold'

News Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates met this week with CNET.co.uk's sister site News.com in conjunction with the company's Professional Developers Conference. Gates: The pace of software innovation today is as fast as it has ever been.

19 September 2005, 10:18 > More matches in News

News.blog: Gates too rich for taxman

News Bill Gates' taxes are apparently too complex for the IRS. So I am constantly getting these notices telling me I haven't paid something when really it is just on the wrong computer," the wire quoted Gates as saying.

3 February 2006, 9:35 > More matches in News

Gates: Windows 7 ready 'in the next year or so'

News Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said on Friday that he expects the latest Windows operating system, code-named Windows 7, to be released "sometime in the next year or so". Nevertheless, Gates's comments suggest that a successor to Vista might be...

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7 April 2008, 9:17 > More matches in News

Gates says goodbye to London

News In his final UK appearance before he steps down as Microsoft chairman to pursue his philanthropic and charitable work, Bill Gates said developments in technology and software will continue to radically change ways of working and interacting for...

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31 January 2008, 8:11 > More matches in News

Q&A: Gates on Windows' update speed

News In the wake of Microsoft's decision to delay the widespread release of Vista, chairman Bill Gates met with CNET.co.uk's sister site News.com and discussed the software company's struggle to ship Vista, the burden of backwards compatibility, and...

28 March 2006, 10:54 > More matches in News

Gates talks up new speech and mobile products

News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced on Wednesday an update to the company's mobile device operating system as well as the latest version of its speech software. Gates' announcement came at a conference in San Francisco, during a speech that...

25 March 2004, 9:35 > More matches in News

Gates sees 'mini bubble'

News A "mini bubble" has emerged among Internet companies, but it is not likely to reach the level of the previous dot-com boom, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said. We are back in a mini-bubble era in terms of people expecting a lot of these valuations...

29 March 2004, 7:20 > More matches in News

Gates predicts software leaps

News At the Gartner Symposium ITExpo in San Diego, Microsoft's Bill Gates discusses how innovations such as reliable speech recognition software will succeed in the next 10 years. Click here to view this video.

31 March 2004, 15:40 > More matches in News