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Fools think Bill Gates is reading about
their pleas for money

Fools think Bill Gates is reading about
their pleas for money 04/14/2004 06:26 PM
Gadgetopia's Deane Barker sez: "Check out the comments on this thread. I posted this note about Bill Gates' philanthropy. There are dozens of comments from people who apparently think Bill Gates posted it and will give them money. It's fascinating to read -- what are these people thinking? I thought about shutting off the comments, but I have this perverse desire to read them. Every couple of comments I have someone leave their phone number and/or home address that I have to go edit out."

i was defrauded from my life savings, by a firm called financial asvisory consultants. the president of this firm had a ponzi scheme going for 20 years, and many investors lost thier life savings. its been all over the papers here in los angeles...if there is anything that you can do to help me out of this situation, i would be forever in your debt. please feel free to contact me if you have any questions, or need additional information in regards to this matter.

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Bill Gates hates children (more in
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Bill Gates hates children (more in
comments) 01/18/2004 11:34 PM
You've got to be kidding

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took Bill Gates several hours

took Bill Gates several hours 06/06/2004 03:12 AM
A nice intuitive challenge .. Bill Gates figured it out .. Here’s

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Bill Gates Gives $20M to CMU for New
Building

Bill Gates Gives $20M to CMU for New
Building 09/16/2004 01:06 AM

Bill Gates And The Next Holy War

Bill Gates And The Next Holy War 06/24/2005 04:42 PM

By Howard Anderson, Macworld UK

Bill Gates to be Knighted

Bill Gates to be Knighted 01/25/2004 10:37 AM

U.S. fines Bill Gates $800,000

U.S. fines Bill Gates $800,000 05/03/2004 03:16 PM
It may just be pocket change for the richest man in the world, but Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has been fined $800,000 by the federal government for violating an antitrust rule. Will the world's richest man feel an $800,000 fine? The technical incident has nothing to do with the government's massive antitrust battles with Microsoft (MSFT: Research, Estimates). Gates, whose fortune has been estimated at more than $40 billion, ran afoul of the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department's Antitrust Division for his purchases of stock in a drug company and a waste-hauling firm.

Is Bill Gates Innovative?

Is Bill Gates Innovative? 09/17/2004 12:34 AM
I'd argue, to a certain degree, yes. After all, he is probably one of the major force in creating the software industry -- software as something that a company can sell on its own, rather than something that is given away free with the hardware.

Bill Gates: Unplugged

Bill Gates: Unplugged 11/19/2003 03:25 PM
Microsoft's chairman compares Linux to Unix in the 1970s and urges people to "be careful" with utility computing.

bill gates on bl0gging

bill gates on bl0gging 05/20/2004 09:53 PM
CEO summit talk where he name-checks RSS and blogging for the second time

Bill Gates on Spam

Bill Gates on Spam 06/29/2004 01:38 PM
Internet News Jun 29 2004 4:59PM GMT

Bill Gates fined $800,000

Bill Gates fined $800,000 05/03/2004 04:36 PM
CNN May 3 2004 8:05PM GMT

Bill Gates Is A Genius And You're Not

Bill Gates Is A Genius And You're Not 07/21/2004 11:39 PM
Analysts are cheering the news that Microsoft will pay its shareholders a one-time dividend of $32 billion, that it will increase its quarterly dividend and buy back another $30 billion in shares.

Bill Gates CES Keynote

Bill Gates CES Keynote 01/08/2004 07:33 PM
You know, tomorrow morning, when the International CES officially opens, you will see the most cutting edge products and technology from nearly 2,500 exhibitors. The International CES has a very impressive lineup of leaders who want to share their knowledge with you. Our keynoters include Fumio Ohtsubo, the president of Panasonic's AVC Networks Company, and senior managing director of Matsushita Electronic Industrial Company; Carly Fiorina, chairman and CEO of Hewlett Packard Company; and Gary Forsee, chairman, president and CEO of Sprint Company.

Bill Gates gets a 4% pay raise

Bill Gates gets a 4% pay raise 09/21/2004 12:24 PM
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, the world's richest man, got a modest pay raise over the last year, according to a company filing.

Gates, who is also the company's chief software architect, received $901,667 in salary and bonus from the company for the fiscal year ended June 30, the company revealed in its proxy filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. That's up 4.4 percent from the year earlier total in salary and bonus.

But Gates' increase was lower than the nearly 15 percent rise in pay and bonus he received the previous fiscal year. The filing also shows Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer received the identical pay and bonus as Gates, as he has each of the previous two years. Neither executive received stock options.

With 1.1 billion shares of Microsoft stock, or about 10 percent of its shares outstanding, Gates' dividends during the year came to about $175.6 million.

This November, the company plans to pay a special dividend of $3 per share, subject to shareholder approval. The company announced in July that Gates will donate his $3.3 billion proceeds of the special dividend to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the charitable organization named for him and his wife.

News source: CNN Money

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Bill Gates on webl0gs and RSS.

Bill Gates on webl0gs and RSS. 05/21/2004 01:07 PM
Bill Gates on weblogs and RSS. It was inevitable, wasn't it?! Embrace and extend, baby. Embrace and extend...

Dinner With Bill Gates

Dinner With Bill Gates 07/28/2004 09:41 AM
Jeff Maurone: Are you beginning to feel like you are in Myst (the video game), because I was.

Bill Gates to Upgrade Fun

Bill Gates to Upgrade Fun 09/01/2004 01:57 PM
The Microsoft man has a plan for the parks. What it is, he's not saying yet.

Bill Gates stalks Nintendo - again

Bill Gates stalks Nintendo - again 08/05/2004 10:29 AM
Have cash, will buy unwanted shares

Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates

Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates 11/06/2003 06:28 AM
vnunet.com Nov 6 2003 5:31AM ET

Make spammers pay, Bill Gates says

Make spammers pay, Bill Gates says 01/25/2004 05:16 PM
Boston Globe Jan 25 2004 9:01PM GMT

Bill Gates Has Left the Building

Bill Gates Has Left the Building 04/28/2004 05:25 PM

For the first time ever in the two years I've been blogging, I have closed the comments on an entry. I always thought I could never get enough comments, but the things happening on the semi-legendary Bill Gates entry need to stop. Comments are split between very sad stories, and people making fun of those sad stories.

While I was at it, I closed the comments on the Bush and Clinton entries as well. People thought they were talking to Bush (a title of "Emailing the President" probably didn't help), and the Clinton thing is straying too far into politics (admittedly, my own comments aggravated this).

I had to dig out the manuals to find the right tag to close them, because I removed that tag from my template long ago, thinking I'd never want to close the comments on anything.

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Bill Gates Hasn't Stopped Spam Yet

Bill Gates Hasn't Stopped Spam Yet 04/08/2005 08:15 PM
Early last year, Bill Gates announced that he was concentrating on the spam problem and had a few ideas on how to stop the problem. Of course, all of those ideas sounded like ideas that others were already trying -- and there was still plenty of spam. It's now been a year since Bill Gates said that his methods could get rid of spam in two years and it's not clear if his efforts have done very much. Certainly, Microsoft has been suing spammers, and some claim that the overall amount of spam has been decreasing a bit. However, we're still quite a long way from getting rid of spam -- which means the special department at Microsoft who's only job is to manage Bill Gates' spam (even if it's not as much as we were originally told) will probably still have plenty of work to do a year from now.

Make Spammers Pay, Bill Gates Says

Make Spammers Pay, Bill Gates Says 01/25/2004 04:14 PM
San Jose Mercury News Jan 25 2004 7:08PM GMT

Letter to Bill Gates, Soon to be a
Webl0gger

Letter to Bill Gates, Soon to be a
Webl0gger 06/28/2004 03:15 PM
I heard that Bill Gates may be blogging. In the Seattle Times, which broke the story, Barry Mitzman is identified as "a former public-television host who helps Gates write materials such as position papers." He was told the news. "That's cool," he said. "If Bill were to do a blog, that would be very interesting. I'd read it." But would I? Will you? Advice to Gates follows...

Bill Gates Interview w/ Spiegel

Bill Gates Interview w/ Spiegel 02/07/2005 01:23 AM
Slashdot Feb 6 2005 5:13PM GMT

Bill Gates talks about bl0gging

Bill Gates talks about bl0gging 05/21/2004 04:10 AM

Reuters

Microsoft's Gates Touts Blogging as Business Tool

Gates described to his audience, which included Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Michael Dell, Carly Fiorina, Barry Diller and other top business executives, how blogs worked and suggested that they could be used as a tool for businesses to communicate with customers.

[...]

Microsoft, which has already amassed more than 700 employee bloggers talking up its products and software in development, is embracing blogs and RSS technology because they are yet another potential threat and opportunity, said Joe Wilcox, analyst at Jupiter Research.

[...]

Instead of RSS, however, Google is also promoting a rival syndication standard called Atom.

So, we already knew that Microsoft knows about and cares about blogs. Does the fact that Bill Gates explained blogs to a bunch of people who already knew what blogs were mean anything substantive?

Scoble, can you give us the inside skinny? Is this going to turn into a Google-Atom vs. Microsoft-RSS war as the article insinuates?

via Gen Kanai

Bill Gates at the 2005 International CES

Bill Gates at the 2005 International CES 01/05/2005 06:30 AM
Once again, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates opens the show with his vision of the year ahead in consumer electronics. Bill will present his 2005 International CES keynote address Wednesday, Jan. 5, at 6:30 p.m. PST in the Las Vegas Hilton Theater.

Bill Gates: Chairman of the couch

Bill Gates: Chairman of the couch 01/06/2005 11:33 AM
ZDNet Jan 6 2005 2:03PM GMT

Bill Gates spins the hits

Bill Gates spins the hits 09/22/2004 12:50 AM
Usatoday.com - Tue Sep 21, 08:15 am GMT

Beating Bill Gates: Part 2

Beating Bill Gates: Part 2 03/14/2003 12:56 PM

Bill Gates, ¿creador de Internet?

Bill Gates, ¿creador de Internet? 05/14/2004 09:06 PM

Bill Gates -- just a sideshow at Comdex

Bill Gates -- just a sideshow at Comdex 11/19/2003 11:48 AM
National Post Online Nov 19 2003 10:28AM ET

Bill Gates Blog. AHHHHHH!!!!!

Bill Gates Blog. AHHHHHH!!!!! 06/26/2004 04:27 AM
Bill Gates May Blog. Always ahead of the curve, the astute visionary's groundbreaking foray into the virginal internet territory, known by computer hackers as "web logging," won't be all business, either. He's expected to share personal details such as tidbits from recent vacations. I for one am trembling on the edge of my seat. 1.0 lacks that special something.

Bill Gates : CES Coverage 2005

Bill Gates : CES Coverage 2005 01/06/2005 12:15 AM
Bill Gates, like many years before, headed up the keynote for the Consumer Electronics Show 2005. Introduced with some light hearted comedy by TV presenter Conan O'Brian, Bill Gates keynote announced Microsoft's plans for the "digital lifestyle" in 2005.

Gates, starting 10 minutes late, announced that many new devices are joining the "PlaysForSure" Microsoft program; the company perceives there being problems amongst consumers as them being unsure as to what music / content plays on what devices. Microsoft hope that any concerns on these issues will be alleviated by this program. Gates described music somewhat vaguely as "going digital", and suggested the company was "pioneering" in the area. He showed off the iRiver device, and the Samsung PMC. The ability to view photos on PMC devices like the Samsung was touched on by Gates, who discussed Microsoft’s advances in the area of viewing pictures. He’s hoping to make it simpler to transfer digital content like pictures onto your PC and demoed a camera (Nikon D2X) with new transfer technology, as well as in built wireless connectivity. Gate’s looked rather frustrated when attempting to demo slide show technology on MCE 2005; unfortunately, despite numerous attempts (and comic suggestions from O’Brian) the slideshow failed to work until later in the show. It became clear later that the bit had been setup to provide O’Brian / MS PR team with an opportunity to Photoshop some photos of Gates for comedy value; all in all the demo had three major failures.

Gates focused on “choice”, highlighting a commitment to letting people view content when they wanted, on whatever device they wanted. He described the centre piece for the drive as Windows Media Center Edition, and noted that they had shipped 1.4 million MCE devices. Products announced at CES included a MSN TV device, a DVD Recording device, new SPOT watches, IP-TV, and much more. Demoed was the MCE Extender for X-Box and MSN Remote Record (currently in beta, to be launched later this quarter). The DVD recorder was also demoed; the device is a records DVD’s, and also has a TV tuner and a hard drive packaged together; the box is made by LG, and features a MCE-esque style layout, with a very simple functionality. This device is one of many new “integrated devices” that Microsoft is keen on launching with MCE 2005. It also became clear that the company is enthusiastic with High Definition (HD) TV devices, offering high quality content in the home. One of the presenters talked about voice, video and data coming through the same pipe- named "IP-TV", an exciting, high bandwidth (and perhaps futuristic) vision of content being offered in the years to come. Software was demoed showing a baseball game where users could control elements like angles viewed, made possible via IP-TV. The potentials did seem quite endless for the technology, with a demo being given on content being streamed from a MCE box onto a mobile phone, and a mobile phone interacting with the box, functioning as a big remote control. It’s re-assuring that Microsoft aren’t just focusing on delivering content to one device (MCE boxes) but much more; it’s also rather worrying that the company could be dominating in many more markets.

Gates also announced a partnership between Microsoft, music channel MTV, and Tivo. Microsoft's relationship with MTV is key for its push into the media centre market. The company badly needs media providers like MTV to create unique content to get users on the Windows Media platform. As part of the agreement, MTV (and its sub-sites) will begin streaming content using WMV 10. Microsoft wants to channel more content from providers like MTV onto their media devices. The announcement comes with MSN Video, offering content for download straight to media devices like the Creative Zen PMC. "We've declared our vision of enabling digital entertainment anywhere, and today we are delivering three more solutions to make that possible," said Blair Westlake, VP of Media at Microsoft.

Tivo's recently launched "TiVoToGo" will be done in partership with Microsoft, allowing customers to transfer content recorded from TV onto their Windows PC. Microsoft will offer a membership based download service from the site, charging $19.99 per year for un-limited access to content offered online. Content will be available from Microsoft partners like MTV, as well as CNBC, MSNBC, Fox Sports, Cookie Jar, Home and Garden TV, DIY Network, Food Network, Fine Living, iFilm, Want Media and Break TV. Content offered will be suitable for the range of "PlaysForSure" devices and will later be compatible with Smartphones and Pocket PCs that support video. Xbox news was limited to discussion about the products achievements over the past year, and noted that the X-Box actually outsold the PS2. He noted Halo-2’s success, and said that there were 6.2m users playing the game. He noted a commitment to making it easier for developers to code games for the Xbox platform. Rumours that CES would see the launch of X-Box 2 were false; he touched on the fact that the next generation of Xbox would be taking advantage of much higher graphics power, which combined with HD-TV would produce much more enticing games.

All in all, Gates announced an impressive line up of new products at CES. Although MCE didn't really take off as well as it might have last year, the company hopes that 2005 will see far more interest in the product. Microsoft hopes to re-assert itself in areas where it perhaps lagged behind, and the offerings shown at this years CES are certain impressive enough to make a good start.

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Bill Gates donates $83m for TB research

Bill Gates donates $83m for TB research 02/13/2004 10:44 AM
Microsoft founder and billionaire, Bill Gates has donated $83 million dollars to help in the research of Tuberculosis. Executive Director of the Gates Foundation's Global Health Programme, Dr. Richard Klausner said, "It is unacceptable that TB continues to kill someone every 15 seconds when we have the ability to discover new tools to stop it. Through accelerated research and development, a new vaccine could permanently change the trajectory of the epidemic and save millions of lives every year." Tuberculosis is responsible for killing over two million people every year.

Next EC antitrust czar was Bill Gates
fan

Next EC antitrust czar was Bill Gates
fan 08/23/2004 08:48 AM
The Register Aug 23 2004 1:23PM GMT

"Bill Gates and Petals Around the Rose"

"Bill Gates and Petals Around the Rose" 06/11/2004 12:52 PM

In Search Of China's Bill Gates

In Search Of China's Bill Gates 09/22/2004 09:59 AM
Fortune Sep 22 2004 1:52PM GMT
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