Steve Ballmer, former Microsoft CEO, has surpassed Bill Gates to become the sixth richest person globally, with a net worth of $157.2 billion. This milestone is attributed to two main factors.
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who officially left the company in 2020 when he departed from its board of directors has reportedly been a silent advisor for its OpenAI partnership.
On April 4, 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen officially launched the company Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We have the info on how it was founded, the origin of its name, and more.
People on social media demand a prison time for Bill Gates, fearing that Microsoft would turn off their PCs if they shared content the company didn't like. However, the claim was fabricated.
On November 20, 1985, over two years after it was first announced by Microsoft, the company finally released Windows 1.01. It was Microsoft's first attempt at a GUI PC operating system.
40 years ago today, Microsoft officially announced its plans to release the first edition of its Windows PC operating system. However, it would take over two years for the OS to finally launch.
On August 6, 1997, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced Microsoft has bought $150 million of stock in the company. It helped Apple get some much-needed funds to jumpstart new products at the company.
Xi Jinping has indicated to Bill Gates in a private meeting that China would be open to allowing US-made generative AI inside the country. It's unclear if results would have to be censored.
Bill Gates issued a memo to Microsoft's employees on May 26. 1995 urging the company to embrace the internet. 28 years later, that memo could have been written to show Microsoft's current AI trend.
The demonstration of Windows 98 with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on stage during a COMDEX keynote address on April 20, 1998, was highly memorable, but definitely for the wrong reasons.
Microsoft was officially formed on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and the late Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. As it reaches its 48th birthday, we take a look at how the company launched.
Bill Gates has said a pause on generative AI models would not help to solve the challenges that these technologies pose. These comments come just weeks after he called the tech revolutionary.
Our latest edition of Microsoft Weekly covers the launch of the OpenAI-powered version of Bing, what's next for Windows 11, and a range of updates for first- and third-party software for Windows.
In a new podcast, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says the rise of chatbots like ChatGPT and the new Bing chatbot will help greatly in areas like health care and education to automate certain tasks.
Bill Gates has published a list of five of the best books he has ever read. The list covers a wide range of topics, from the life of Bono and Abraham Lincoln to the periodic table.
Microsoft shows its commitment to providing a safe, inclusive work environment for its employees by announcing an action plan to counter gender discrimination and sexual harassment.
Samsung has been working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a new toilet that incinerates waste. Samsung will offer related royalty-free patents to developing countries.
In a Reddit AMA (ask me anything), Microsoft's Founder, Bill Gates, has revealed that he uses a foldable phone. However, Gates' daily driver isn't Microsoft's dual-display foldable Surface Duo 2.
In his latest interview, Bill Gates has reflected on his meetings with Jeffrey Epstein, saying that he has major regrets about his interactions with the disgraced financier and sex offender.
A report from the Wall Street Journal says that some members of Microsoft's board of directors wanted Gates to step down as company director following inappropriate relations with a female employee.
Bill Gates made the leap to Android back in 2017, presumably from Windows phones. In a recent interview on Clubhouse, the Microsoft co-founder has revealed why he prefers Android over iOS.
Every sector needs someone like Elon Musk who will experiment and develop new technologies to reduce carbon emissions, according to Bill Gates. He specifically cited the steel and cement industries.
The California tech giant's stocks rose by 5% last week, meaning that the company is nearing $2 trillion in market value and its CEO is the latest addition to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
The social media website has responded to last night's hack stating that the attack was socially engineered and targeted some Twitter employees with access to internal tools and systems.
Twitter accounts of prominent personalities and Bitcoin exchange companies were compromised earlier today. The hackers linked to a phishing website that siphoned off close to $25,000 already.
Bill Gates has called President Trump's decision to withdraw funding from the World Health Organization "dangerous". Gates' foundation, in 2018, was the second-largest contributor to WHO.
This past week, Bill Gates stepped down from Microsoft's board of directors, the company transformed Build 2020 and its E3 presentation into virtual events, and so much more. Catch up below.
Today, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates announced that he's stepping down from the company's board of directors. He's also leaving Berkshire Hathaway to focus on his philanthropy and other endeavors.
Bill Gates thinks that Windows Mobile would have been dominating the market today instead of Android had it not been for the antitrust investigation from the US Justice Department that distracted him.
Microsoft interns and employees have produced an odd new video called Microsoft the Musical. And yes, it's a musical touting the things it got right, and some things that it got wrong.
Today, Netflix released a two and a half minute trailer for its upcoming documentary, called Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates. It's coming to the streaming service on September 20.
A number of things happened this last week, including the start of testing for Halo on PC, a small set of patches being made available, and Edge Dev coming to Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 Catch up below.
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At a recent interview at a venture capital firm, Microsoft co-founder and former CEO Bill Gates spoke briefly about the company's failure at mobile, calling it his "greatest mistake ever".
Facebook Co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has moved ahead of Warren Buffett as the third-richest person alive. This movement in ranking has been driven by Facebook's stock reaching an all-time high.
The Microsoft founder is fairly outspoken on a variety of topics, and in the case of the popularity of cryptocurrencies, he makes it clear he is not a fan, mainly because of the anonymity around it.
Recent gains in its share price have propelled the online behemoth to third place in the U.S. economy with respect to market valuation, edging ahead of the Redmond giant by a small margin.
The former head of Microsoft lends his expertise to a series of videos designed to teach kids about computers and potentially drive them to careers in the tech sector. He is one of many helping out.
An investment firm backed by former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates has dropped a hefty sum for some desert property west of Phoenix, Arizona, to build a city housing - and run by - technology of the future.
According to Nadella's newly released book, Hit Refresh, the company's former CEOs and his predecessors didn't necessarily understand the appeal of the $2.5 billion purchase of Minecraft at the time.
As with almost every Microsoft fan at this point, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has also left the company's mobile platform and switched to Android, adding one more to Google's legion of users.
