Archive for the tag 'gates'

Jun 28 2008

Goodbye uncle Bill

Published by Stef under business, eng

As Bill Gates finally bows out of Microsoft to pursue his charity interests, BBC looks at some of the hits and misses of the software company he founded.
BBC NEWS | Technology | The hits and misses of Microsoft
Uncle Bill left a Microsoft not having beaten the Free Software movement and fighting to conquer new markets, [...]

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Nov 28 2007

Open Source? Microsoft’s split personality

Published by Stef under business, eng

I’m not sure that Bill Hilf’s declarations about Microsoft’s Open Source strategy give a complete picture of the corporate strategy in the near future to compete in a sector that radically changed since Windows came to light in the ’90s. I think that Microsoft is being disrupted and will have to split and go [...]

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