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Microsoft is currently engaging in some incredible rewriting of history. Here's Horacio Gutiérrez, deputy general counsel at the com...

I have been reporting on Microsoft all my journalistic life, and believe me, that's quite some time. To give you an idea how far I go ba...

A few months ago, I spent quite a few words disembowelling a BSA report on piracy that made some highly-simplistic assumptions and calculati...

Yesterday, Computerworld UK carried an interesting report headed “British Library explores research technologies of the future”. Here's ...

The global environmental catastrophe that we all face is, of course, a typical tragedy of the (analogue) commons. Resources that are held i...

The first time I was really impressed by Microsoft was back in the 1980s. I was being given a private demonstration of a hot new program for...

Bill Gates's decision to move away from day-to-day running of Microsoft was doubly shrewd. First, because it allowed him to leave when ...

One of the many sad aspects of Sun's disappearance into the maw of Oracle is that many will see this as “proof” that its strategy of bui...

Here's an interesting project: the Open Course Library . These are its goals : * design 81 high enrollment courses for face-to-face, hy...

On Twitter, I have just been followed by @nextbillgates, which is associated with the eponymous Web site : Consider yourself to be an IT wiz...

Following my recent post about Bill Gates helping to push genetically-modified and patented seeds towards needy African farmers, Roy Schest...

It's becoming increasingly evident that Bill Gates' philanthropy is not simple and disinterested, but has woven into it a complex ag...

Yesterday I took part in an interesting event organised by BT called " Accelerating Enterprise adoption of Open Source Software " ...

Here's a brilliant, must-read feature exposing some of the hidden agendas of the Green Revolution and the dark side of the Gates Founda...

Wow, here's a really great article about identity management from, um, er, Microsoft. Actually, it's a rather remarkable Microsoft...

And so it starts to come out : Microsoft is angling to work on India’s national identity card project, Mr. Gates said, and he will be meetin...

Yesterday I wrote about Microsoft's attempt to persuade scientists to adopt its unloved Windows HPC platform by throwing in a few free ...

Bill Gates is amazing; just look at this brilliant idea he's come up with: using large fleets of vessels to suppress hurricanes through ...

Not my words, but the subtitle of a book that apparently has wise words on the harm inflicted on society by intellectual monopolies: It is ...

All around the world, it seems, people just can't get enough of this amazing free office suite, which is now turning in serious market s...