Gates Steps Up for Vista
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Spinning Steve Ballmer's comments on Vista's lagging sales, Bill Gates touts positive public feedback. In Game|Life.
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update Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Tuesday detailed his company&#39;s plan for computer management software and announced a long-awaited Windows update tool.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft's Bill Gates ushered his company'sÂ new Vista OSÂ and Office 2007 software suite into Europe on Tuesday morning, near the end of a round-the-world event that brings the software to 70 countries in 19 languages. Gates, who wore a pin-stripe suit and burgundy tie, started his presentation about 20 minutes late at the U.K. launch event at the British Library, which is working with Microsoft toÂ digitize parts of its vast collection. He recalled how far the company had come since 1995, the year the 32-bit Windows OS was launched along with the Internet Explorer browser, now one of the company's most-used applications. Gates was keen to present Vista as a milestone for the company, but also aÂ cornerstone OSÂ for manipulating video and photos, conducting e-commerce transactions and using VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) functions. "Today is a big day and is really the start of something different," Gates said. Microsoft continued its strong push around the world to complement the Vista launch in New York on Monday. In Paris on Tuesday morning, Microsoft flooded the out-of-town business district at La DÃ©fense with Vista-liveried Smart cars and Segways among rush-hour pedestrians. Gates touched on the revamp of the Microsoft Office productivity suite, saying its new interface "only takes a few hours to learn." While Microsoft has said that Office 2007's new "ribbon" menu, which replaces the drop-down menus and toolbars, should make it easier to find certain functions, some users have said it is tricky to adapt to. After Gates' initial presentation, he shared the stage with British Library Chief Executive Lynne Brindley to discuss the software application Turning the Pages 2.0 from Armadillo Systems, which the British Library uses to scan and compile downloadable renditions of texts in its collection. Gates allowed an item from his personal collection to be scanned. He owns the Codex Leicester, one of only a few existing notebooks belonging to the artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci, who died in 1519. The British Library holds the Codex Arundel, another rare collection of his notes. Both have been digitized into realistic-looking renderings that allows users to "turn" the pages of the texts while viewing online. Brindley called it an "electronic reunification" of the texts that will help scholars study them. Both codexes are on the British Library's Web site. Â
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Vista's still in its early days, which means plenty of adjustments for Redmond, its allies and competitors.
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The computer maker is making more inroads into the lucrative software space.
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InfoWorld - MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --&#160; Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates, during an appearance here Friday at the Computer History Museum, expressed no fear of Linux usurping Windows in the software industry.
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Microsoft Corp.  launched Windows Vista for businesses on Thursday, unveiling the first major upgrade of its dominant operating system in five years and predicting that over 200 million people will run new Windows, Office or PC server software by the end of 2007.
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Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, told a gathering of students of the University of California at Berkeley yesterday that computers would be the ticket to a good career in the near future.
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Software maker expands its Windows-lite offerings.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --Â  Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates, during an appearance here Friday at the Computer History Museum, expressed no fear of Linux usurping Windows in the software industry.
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SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- Seeking to be more competitive with Microsoft Corp...
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At his Sunday-evening CES keynote, Bill Gates announced that Microsoft has sold more than 100 million Vista licenses so far. The number requires some elucidation.
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Microsoft Corp. might not be the unbeatable giant it once seemed to be, but Chairman Bill Gates made the case Sunday night that its technologies are becoming even more flexible and powerful as they seep into automobiles, Internet-based TV networks and living rooms.
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By Jessica Mintz  Acrobatics, blaring music and plenty of hype accompanied Microsoft Corp.'s long-delayed debut of its new Windows Vista operating system.
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Microsoft rolled out the latest version of its all-conquering Windows operating system for business customers, hoping corporate users will blaze a trail for the new Vista platform.
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Microsoft Chief Software Architect Bill Gates took the stage of the IT Forum in Copenhagen Tuesday to introduce a handful of tools and a hatful of promises designed to offer relief from managing complex, distributed systems.
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The Microsoft operating system is improved by the soon-to-arrive service pack, but Windows Vista still is missing some features we'd like to see.