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  • Post-Gates Microsoft has issues to consider

    Oracle and SAP may still be bigger in enterprise applications, and Oracle in databases. Both IBM and Hewlett-Packard may reap more IT dollars overall. But in the ways that really count, Microsoft remains the king of the IT industry.

  • Is Ballmer right man for Microsoft - for 10 more years?

    As the dynamic duo steering Microsoft together for the past 28 years, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have been a near-unstoppable team, combining Gates's technical vision and will to power with Ballmer's salesmanship and rousing, if polarising, personality.

  • Gates bids developers adieu

    It's fitting that Microsoft chairman Bill Gates delivered his final publicly scheduled speech as a full-time Microsoft employee to a roomful of software developers.

  • It’s the end of an era at Microsoft — or is it?

    The press is abuzz with speculation about Bill Gates’s “impending” departure from Microsoft. As InfoWorld editor-in-chief Steve Fox rightly points out, no other company could announce executive turnover in two years’ time and have it called news. What lends gravitas to this non-event, however, is an idea that’s been growing within the industry and which is beginning to find its voice: it’s time for change.

  • Gates to scale back Microsoft role in 2008

    Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates says he will step out of his daily role at Microsoft in July 2008 so he can take on a full-time role at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the charity organisation he runs with his wife.

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