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What Made Bill Gates Angry?

What Made Bill Gates Angry?

Bill Gates is soon to retire and there are many speculations about what is he going to do after his retirement. Since most of the bloggers are busy blogging about it I decided to come up with something else. Let us travel into the past and see what really made Bill Gates angry during the year 2003.

Microsoft - Gates = (What) ?

Bill Gates is supposed to leave Microsoft officially next week. Everywhere on the Internet, there are pieces doing the rounds I gaining Microsoft without Bill Gates. Bill has been the principle force behind Microsoft. He had an active role to play in all the decisions in the company. He knew about all the technologies being developed at Microsoft. At heart, Gates was always a hacker.

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of FaceBook, felicitated by Harvard. Are the IIT’s listening?

 
24 year old founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, who also happens to be a Harvard university dropout when he launched facebook is now getting felicitated by Harvard . Today, Zuckerberg, 24, is famous for other reasons. For one reason being, analysts think he could be the nation’s richest man under 25, with a [...]

Updated: Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky Speaks About Windows 7

Updated: Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky Speaks About Windows 7

As Windows XP deadline approaches Vista sales is expected to go up. But people all over the world seem to be more interested in the upcoming version of Windows 7 rather than Vista. In an exclusive interview with CNET, Steven Sinofsky the senior vice president for the Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group at Microsoft [...]

Why Did I Get That Ad? Ask Yahoo.

Why Did I Get That Ad? Ask Yahoo.

OK fine. Frankly, I get pissed off when people (websites, yaar) serve me car loans ads for a BMW when I do not even have money to buy a Bajaj Pulsar. (What I do with all my salary, is another question altogether). At times, I so wanna ask these ad-networks, what do you see in my profile that suggests that it’s ok for you to prompt me to go and buy an eight-cylinder, 3000 CC sedan? That, however, is not an option. Not anymore.
This news piece says, Yahoo is planning to let the end users know their ad profile. What this means is, that you will be able to right-click on an ad and find what exactly in your profile has prompted Yahoo to deliver that ad of the matrimony website

Yahoo Responds to Microsoft : Rejecting The Offer ?

Yahoo Responds to Microsoft : Rejecting The Offer ?

The battle between Microsoft and Yahoo is getting hotter by the day. Here is a copy of the letter that Yahoo sent to Microsoft recently.

Bill Gates Keynote speech at CES 2008

Bill Gates Keynote speech at CES 2008

Bill Gates made his 11th keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show 2008 in Las Vegas. The address was full of a lot of reviews of the past as well as a peep into the future of technology.
 
There are a couple of new deals. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor (MGM), Disney, ABC Television, and NBC.
 
Gates said
 

“Since I first started [...]