Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, have surprisingly never met before. That ...

SQL Server shows Microsoft is willing to change. The port of SQL Server to Linux is significant in that Gates originally referred to Linux as a “cancer” in a 2001 interview. Times have changed ...

Bill Gates is pretty confident that when he spots an emerging technology, it will emerge. Exactly when they'll arrive, though, is sometimes a question mark. Tablet computing and interactive TV are ...

Bill Gates, the co-founder of software giant Microsoft is not only no longer the richest man in the world, but he is also no ...

I got a tip that Bill Gates' new site, The Gates Notes, was running on a Linux-powered server. This would be ironic since Gates is of course the founder of Microsoft, which is Linux's biggest ...

Bill Gates, Linux and internet pet feeders — the most fascinating tech tales to read this weekend. ... Bill Gates has enjoyed a squeaky clean reputation as a quirky-but-friendly billionaire ...

Is it something in the water? First, it was Denmark bidding Microsoft adieu. Then it was the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Now it's Lyon, France's third-largest city and a leading economic hub, ...

In a speech before the World Economic Forum in Switzerland this week, mega-billionaire Bill Gates is calling for a “creative capitalism” in which businesses build and target products for ...

Microsoft officials recently made it clear that one of their objectives for the next 12 months is to do better at picking off more Unix migrators than archrival Linux. They feel they have left ...

Hello, and welcome to the latest edition of the Insider Tech weekly newsletter, where we break down the biggest news in tech, including: Happy 4th of July! In honor of the holiday weekend, we're ...

Gates on Vista, Linux and more ... Bill Gates is pretty confident that when he spots an emerging technology, it will emerge. Exactly when that happens, though, is sometimes a question mark.