Gates, Jobs Make Rare Joint Appearance
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By ELLIOT SPAGAT  CARLSBAD, Calif. - Legendary technology rivals Bill Gates and Steve Jobs made a rare joint appearance Wednesday and wasted no time making nice. "Bill built the first software company in the industry," said Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc.
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Repeating a call Microsoft has been making for years, Bill Gates this week addressed both Congress and a gala gathering at the Center for Democracy and Technology concerning the prospects of a comprehensive consumer privacy law.
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STEVE JOBS, Apple's boss, on his often tense relationship with Microsoft founder Bill Gates  (c) 2007 Independent on Sunday, The. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates speaks Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004 at Microsoft Corp.&#39;s annual shareholders meeting in Bellevue, Wash.
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Bill Gates has never taken himself as seriously as he does his company. So it was only fitting that it was with a humorous and star-studded video parody that he kicked off his final pre-show keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Sunday night in Las Vegas.Gates fictionally portrayed his last day of full-time work at CES in a video that had everyone from presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to The Daily Show host Jon Stewart turning him down for a job, and music mogul Jay-Z and film actor Matthew McConaughey patiently enduring his painful attempts at new extracurricular activities -- rapping and hitting the gym.When the laughs and well-received applause from a crowd of several thousand at The Venetian hotel and casino died down, Gates once again outlined his vision for a world of service-connected devices that allow for human interactions through speech and touch -- a vision he&#39;s been promoting for years from the CES stage.&quot;Getting the latest software, getting your data -- you&#39;ll just take that for granted,&quot; Gates said. &quot;When you take a photo it will show up in a place you like it to show up. That will be very simple.&quot;He added that eventually, devices also will know the context and location of the people using them, so location-based information from a device will be automatic.Gates&#39; vision for a connected world of devices and services has always been impressive. But as he makes his full-time exit from Microsoft, the company has yet to bring it to the mainstream user.Although some of the news in Gates&#39; keynote seems to suggest Microsoft is poised to change that, the company&#39;s strategy remains rooted in disparate product lines that haven&#39;t quite come together. And the company is facing increased pressure from competitors such as Apple and Google, which have turned ideas Microsoft has bandied about for years -- such as touch-screen technology and Web-based services -- into profits the software giant has not come close to achieving with its own efforts.Still, Microsoft introduced some new deals and services on stage Sunday that show the company is on the right track. In particular, Microsoft has struck some savvy deals with entertainment companies MGM and ABC to bring films and popular TV shows, respectively, to Xbox Live. That service and community, aimed at gamers using the Xbox console, has turned the Xbox into a viable television platform, tying together Microsoft&#39;s gaming strategy with its aim to provide premium entertainment. Along those lines, the company also announced a deal Sunday with British Telecom to deliver its IPTV service Mediaroom through the Xbox console.Other offerings that tie together multiple services and devices on display Sunday also showed that Gates&#39; connected services vision is coming into focus. A demo during the keynote showed how users can take photos from within a Windows Live hosted service and post them seamlessly to a blog or e-mail them to friends. Another showed how users can purchase movie tickets on a Windows Mobile device using voice commands and then text-message those tickets to other mobile devices.Microsoft also showed some progress on the Zune media player front, even though many still view the device as a poor competitor to Apple&#39;s enormously popular line of iPods. During the keynote Microsoft introduced Zune Social, an online community where Zune users can share playlists, track what their friends are listening to on their own devices and connect automatically to the Zune Marketplace to purchase songs.Toward the end of Gates&#39; keynote, he and Microsoft President Robbie Bach demonstrated a prototype device from Microsoft Research that seemed to represent the culmination of the company&#39;s connected-device strategy. The device used visual recognition to identify people and places in its line of &quot;sight,&quot; and remind a user of events related to them. For example, when Gates aimed the device at Bach, the device identified him and reminded Gates that Bach owed him $20. However, information neither Gates nor Bach could provide was how long it would take for such a device to be fully developed and released.When all was said and done on Sunday, Gates ended his CES legacy not with a bang but a whimper, allowing a special guest star to steal what would have been his final CES thunder.During what was poised to be a $20 contest between Gates and Bach on the popular Guitar Hero game, Gates instead introduced a ringer to take his place -- former Guns N&#39; Roses guitarist Slash. As the shaggy-haired guitarist played a loud riff from the band&#39;s song &quot;Welcome to the Jungle,&quot; Gates stood smiling on the stage and let Bach say the final goodbye, assuring attendees that he, at least, would be back again next year.
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The United States has nothing to fear from rapidly growing technology markets in China and India, Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corp.  said on Friday.
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A tale of egos, fortunes, and potty training Comment In his public appearances, Bill Gates often appears to be so heavily sedated that the the private, peevish Bill we know and love from his internal emails rarely erupts.â¦
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Tens of thousands of Microsoft employees flocked last week to hear Gates speak one last time before he leaves the company he co-founded.
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Executive sees opportunities despite recent challenges to its position from Microsoft and Oracle.
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COPENHAGEN -- Offering relief from managing complex, distributed systems, Microsoft Corp. 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.
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They both are aiming at Google but sit in different places--literally. Microsoft's work just begins with having to win over Yahoo's board and shareholders.
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By Brier Dudley, The Seattle Times  May 31--CARLSBAD, Calif. -- The audience was expecting daggers, but it  got roses instead when Bill Gates and Steve Jobs had a rare public  conversation Wednesday night at The Wall Street Journal's D: All Things  Digital conference.
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Speaking to technologists during an appearance at the Computer History Museum, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates touched on a number of topics, including Linux, Web services, grid computing and digital rights management.
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The last time computer scientists truly changed the way people communicate with PCs, they created the mouse. Microsoft Chairman William H. Gates III thinks his company might have the next breakthrough.
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Terry Semel visits Bill Gates this week. What do the two have in store?
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Jobs and Gates haven't shared the spotlight in years. They'll do it at this year's D Conference, though, and the topic is a weighty one.
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Bill Gates made three public appearances during a trip to California late last week. Some of the more interesting moments, as captured in the media coverage: San Francisco Chronicle: &quot;Gates took questions