Microsoft's Gates says to reduce role in 2008
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Microsoft Corp.   founder Bill Gates said on Thursday that over the next two  years he will ease out of a day-to-day role at the company he  built into the world&#039;s biggest software maker.
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Bill Gates is about to announce a new step in Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) home-entertainment strategy.
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Microsoft&#39;s quarterly results released Thursday make clear that the software maker is becoming a much different company than the one Bill Gates started back in 1975.
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CEO Steve Ballmer tells analysts that 2008 increase will be smaller and says some of their Windows revenue forecasts are too optimistic.
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Natural interfaces such as touch, speech and ink will play a much bigger role in the successor to Windows Vista, Chairman Bill Gates tells CNET News.com.
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Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates on  Sunday took center stage at the world's largest technology show  for the last time and predicted that his industry was on the  cusp of the next "digital decade."
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The Microsoft Corp.  executive in charge of closing the gap on Web search leader Google Inc  is leaving the company, a source familiar with the situation said on Wednesday.
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Experts say countries from Brazil to Russia to China are shunning Bill Gates' proprietary Windows operating system in favor of open source systems such as Linux, mounting a major challenge to Microsoft's global dominance.
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Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday that eBay Inc. will soon drop support for its Passport service, originally intended to make the world's biggest software maker the gatekeeper of Web identities.
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Microsoft Corp.  Chairman Bill Gates has shed most of his investments in home builders, as revealed in a quarterly filing of the holdings of his charitable foundation.
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Microsoft Corp. announced yesterday that it will leave out some planned features from its next major operating system to meet a goal of rolling out a new version of Windows in the second half of 2006.
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Ford Motor Co.  on Friday said it  would cut its annual costs by about $5 billion by the end of  2008 and reduce its salaried staff by about a third as part of  an accelerated restructuring.
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Microsoft Corp. on Friday said it has scaled back the next major release of the Windows operating system, code-named Longhorn, opting to drop the next-generation file system, so it can ship the OS in 2006.
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To meet its timetable, Microsoft has scaled back its technological ambitions for the product, code-named Longhorn.
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In testimony before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Wednesday, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates warned that plummeting undergraduate enrollments and diminishing federal funding for research endanger America's ability to "remain a technology powerhouse."
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Microsoft (Quote, Chart) had little choice but to cut features from Longhorn, its next-generation operating system, analysts and developers say.
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Microsoft's Windows platform is losing traction as a target for application developers in North America.