bill gates

For those of us in the industry, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs left a lasting legacy when they liberated information technology workers from the tyranny of the business suit.

Bill Gates' problem, you see, is that he needs to open up, man; explore the Windows of the mind....

Tech Rights: "The sources the Microsoft-apathetic folks cite describe this extortion as some sort of 'protection' or 'access to patents'.

This is nonsense. It's spin."

Earlier this year, I wrote about the Khan Academy, the online operation run by an old housemate of mine, Sal Khan.

At the time, he was getting more and more (well deserved) press attention for the project.

Every once in a while, a person or team of people come along and change the Internet forever. In the 1980s, it was Bill gates and Steve Jobs, in the early 2000s, it was Mark Zuckerberg and Tom Anderson, and today, it's the people people discussed below.

These folks shaped the very fabric of the social web, and through their contributions, they have made the Internet a more exciting and connected place to be.

Today we recognize these architects of the social web, their revolutionary creations, and what accomplishments helped them achieve the heights they've reached.

According to Bill Gates it is. Don't discount this college drop-out, he makes some really logical points in this article.

He believes that you should get credit for the knowledge you gain no matter where you obtained it from.

How does the world's most famous entrepreneur now fill his days? Saving the world, helping startups -- and dropping kids off at school.

Bill Gates, co-founder and chairman of Microsoft, on Friday sent the Wall Street Journal a remembrance of Henry Edward Roberts, who died Thursday at the age of 68.

In the last few years, Microsoft has become a bigger and bigger supporter of patents, which is a bit ironic, given that Bill Gates once pointed out that the software industry never would have developed if there had been software patents back in the early days.

DevX: "Forbes released its annual list of the world's billionaires Thursday, and technology companies are well represented, even though Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest person."