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News Source: China Peoples Daily
| about 1 year ago
Bill Gates bade farewell on Friday to Microsoft Corp., the software giant he built with childhood friend Paul Allen in 1975, to focus on philanthropy aimed at improving healthcare and alleviating poverty around the world. "There won't be a day in my...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| about 1 year ago
Bill Gates bade farewell on Friday to Microsoft Corp., the software giant he built with childhood friend Paul Allen in 1975, to focus on philanthropy aimed at improving healthcare and alleviating poverty around the world. "There won't be a day in...
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News Source: Guardian Unlimited
| about 1 year ago
Bill Gates born in Seattle, Washington 1975 Drops out of Harvard to establish Microsoft with a friend, Paul Allen 1980 Microsoft wins a lucrative deal to provide MS-DOS operating systems for IBM computers 1983 Windows operating system and Word...
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News Source: Valleywag
| about 1 year ago
Microsoft co-founder, former CEO and executive chairman Bill Gates should be just about wrapping up his last day as a full-time employee of Microsoft and moving on to head up the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. While I never met the man, he...
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News Source: Reuters
| about 1 year ago
Bill Gates said a teary goodbye on Friday to Microsoft Corp, the software maker he built into the world's most valuable technology company based on the ambitious goal of placing a computer on every desk and in every home. He leaves his full-time...
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News Source: Guardian Unlimited
| about 1 year ago
Microsoft not only sells well over 90% of the operating systems that reside in the world's computers but also well over 90% of the business programs (Word and Excel) that run on them. They account for an overwhelming proportion of Microsoft's profits.
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News Source: Jang.com.pk
| about 1 year ago
Macintosh computer fanatics won�t have Bill Gates to kick around anymore. The Microsoft co-founder and driving force in the company, whose boyish face and nerdy manner epitomizes the US software colossus, spends his last day at the office on...
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News Source: Herald Net
| about 1 year ago
It is almost unthinkable that any one human could pick up where Bill Gates leaves off when he ends his full-time tenure today as Microsoft's leader. But as Gates bones up on epidemiology at his charitable foundation, the software company he built...
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News Source: Gulfnews.com
| about 1 year ago
Is it just me, or does it look like Gates got out while the going was good? I realise that he made the decision to step down from Microsoft's daily operations two years ago, but his final days come at a time when Microsoft is under siege. The '...
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News Source: Asia Times
| about 1 year ago
It is unlikely these new names will come cheap or be readily available to individuals and the general public. As we have seen, the domain registrars, which are private companies, get in first to snap up the best names with the intention of reselling...