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Microsoft's Paul Allen: Working with Bill Gates was like "being in hell"
Paul Allen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft is quite the eccentric, often compared to the reclusive Howard Hughes. His enormous wealth has funded no end of bachelor fantasies (including owning his own private space rocket and jamming with the Rolling…
Facebook's Zuckerberg to give away over half his $6.9 billion wealth
Following in the footsteps of the philanphropic work of other tech billionaire Bill Gates, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has revealed that he is to give away over half of his $6.9 billion wealth to charity either before or following his…
The Apple iPad: Bill Gates gives his two cents, unsurprisingly underwhelmed
You can rest assured that Apple's latest iPad venture will sell well enough to justify itself, but ask almost anyone who's been following the tablet what they think of it and you'll likely get a shrug of the shoulders and…
Bill Gates joins Twitter
The world's richest man and founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates has finally joined Twitter. With a nod to his programming roots, he kicked off proceedings with a first tweet of "hello world". There have been plenty of fake accounts set…
Microsoft offers $250,000 reward for information leading to capture of Conficker worm virus creator
If you happen to inhabit the same deadly underground hacking world (forum) as the creator of the “Conficker” virus that’s been wreaking havoc on PCs since last October and even left France vulnerable to aerial invasion, you might be in luck.
Microsoft has put up a $250,000 reward for information leading the the capture of the creator of the worm/virus, hoping that some of the man’s internet friends might be a bit keen on grassing him up and bringing him to justice…
Bill Gates unleashes horde of mosquitos into packed conference hall
Screaming “Not only poor people should experience this!”, last night Bill Gates released a swarm of mosquitoes into the audience at TED – a technology conference in California. You just can’t make this stuff up.
Gates, whose foundation spends millions of dollars on combating malaria, was making a point that rich countries don’t pay the disease enough attention because it doesn’t really impact their citizenry. Still, hell of a PR stunt!
The Twittersphere reported the swarm as it was release, with eBay founder and Twitter CEO Pierre Omidyar providing the best commentary.
(via Switched)
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UPDATE: Seinfeld not canned, Bill wants to know what you think
I promised I’d tell you when the new ad was out, and here it is. I burst out laughing in the office in the middle of that, which was mildly embarrassing, but a good sign for Microsoft. Highly recommended. In a not-so-good sign, the agency behind the adverts has said that Seinfeld hasn’t been officially canned – they still plan at least one more spot featuring him and Gatesey.
Microsoft bin Jerry Seinfeld and move to reclaim "I'm a PC"
Someone at Microsoft’s listening to Gary Cutlack, and his hatred of Microsoft’s ill-judged ads featuring Jerry Seinfeld. Or maybe they’re just listening to the entire rest of the internet. Microsoft have wisely binned Seinfeld in favour of a whole bevvy of stars in the second phase of their new Windows ad campaign…
Bill Gates flexes his acting skills with Jerry Seinfeld, as Microsoft kicks off $300m Windows ad campaign
It is an advert about nothing. This clip made its debut on US television last night, bewildering viewers by showing Jerry Seinfeld and Mr Gates trying on shoes in a discount shoe shop. Then buying some shoes. Then leaving.
But it’s not an advert for shoes. Neither man has fallen that far since quitting the things that made them rich and famous. See if you can guess what it’s for.
Of course you know what it’s about and for – Windows. Microsoft’s bunging $300m into a new marketing campaign, designed…
Bill Gates – "using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated"
This fantastic email comes from the archives of Microsoft, and was originally turned over to the authorities during the nasty anti-trust investigation.
In it, Bill releases his epic frustration at the process of trying to download Windows Movie Maker. It’s nice to know that Bill counts the seconds Microsoft web pages take to load and also reboots his PC “every night.” Here are a few quotes – the full email’s after…
