Did I mention I was Scobelized…? More on that later.What to do if you’re laid off in 2008 recession It’s sad to hear about layoffs at companies like Yahoo. Right now it seems like a bad time to be laid off. I’m here to offer some hope. I laid myself off in February 2002. Remember [...]

There was a lot of press last week about Bill Gates’ session “A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century ” at the World Economic Forum 2008 in Davos, Switzerland but few if any of which had linked to the YouTube video of the whole session. It’s just one of the many great sessions [...]

Bill Gates and his wife Melinda head the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, which aims to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty worldwide. If innovation is what the Middle East is looking for, then today it will have a chance to hear from a man who defines it. Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, the world’s [...]

… about living with Bill, working with Warren Buffett, and giving away their billions. Years before Melinda French met and married Bill Gates, she had a love affair – with an Apple computer. She was growing up in Dallas in a hard-working middle-class family. Ray French, Melinda’s dad, stretched their budget to pay for all [...]

IT Managers Welcome Vista SP1 Release Candidate Microsoft released a slew of product updates over the past few weeks, but the one IT administrators seem to care the most about is Windows Vista SP1, with many already having rolled out the release candidate for the service pack or planning to do so in the near [...]

One of the most important changes of the last 30 years is that digital technology has transformed almost everyone into an information worker. A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity. This isn’t true at all. In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable [...]

Vista turns one, and businesses start to come around… slowly Eric Lai November 30, 2007 (Computerworld) When Microsoft Corp. released Windows Vista to businesses exactly one year ago, near-term expectations weren’t high. Experts widely predicted that Vista, even if it was bug-free and proved to be an immediate hit with consumers, would only slowly catch [...]

For years, the Microsoft chairman has been a fiery advocate, inside the company and out, for the notion that computers should be controlled, not just by mouse and keyboard, but also by more natural means, such as voice, touch and digital ink. But, as Gates prepares to shift to part-time work at Microsoft next year, [...]

It’s been almost two years since I wrote this post comparing the approaches to presentation by Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Since PowerPoint 2007 has been out quite a while now I wondered if Bill Gates’ visuals and delivery have improved along with the software. So I watched this entire Bill Gates presentation recently (twice). [...]

Earlier this month NEWSWEEK invited readers to submit questions to Bill Gates about the work his foundation is doing on the problem of global health. We received more than 400 questions, and forwarded a selection of them to Gates. Here are his answers: How did you start thinking about the Third World, when the whole [...]