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Gates: Windows 7 will 'take less memory, be more efficient'
Bill Gates has inadvertently confirmed that Microsoft is hard at work tweaking the next iteration of Windows - or Windows 7, to be more efficient where power and memory utilization is concerned.
Read more...Spam turns 30
Spam, the bane of every office and personal email system, celebrated its 30th birthday on May 3 and as every CIO knows, age hasn't stopped the scourge from remaining ubiquitous. Microsoft founder Read more...
Gates warns of U.S. tech folly
Microsoft founder Bill Gates made a trip to Washington, D.C., last week, his last visit to the nation's capital representing the company. He testified on Capitol Hill and made a speech to Virginia's Read more...
Gates: Huge software advances coming next decade
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is convinced that the next 10 years will see an acceleration of advancements in software and computing, relaying that message during a Northern Virginia Technology Read more...
Gates comes to D.C. for a final visit
Microsoft founder Bill Gates takes his final lap around Washington, D.C., next week as company chairman when he testifies on March 12 at a hearing on the future of innovation and U.S. Read more...
Trivial pursuit for CIOs
Do you know what Cobol is and who invented it? How about the first company that issued a security patch as hacking become the norm, not the exception? Do you know where Bill Gates went to high Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Microsoft posts record Q2 results; Palm hires yet another former Apple exec;
> Bill Gates pledges $306 million to farmers in developing nations. Article> Palm hires yet another former Apple Read more...
Microsoft's new CIO: A mouse that roars
As we reported on our website this past Friday, Microsoft hired Tony Scott as its new CIO to Read more...
Jeff Raikes retiring from Microsoft
Jeff Raikes, one of three Microsoft corporate presidents, has announced that he'll be retiring in September of this year. Head of Microsoft's Business Division (Office, Exchange and Dynamics), Read more...




