Bill Gates

On a very special This Week on Channel 9, Jeff Sandquist joins Dan and Brian in studio to discuss CNN's special Bill Gates slideshow narrated by Bill himself (0 - 2:00) Newsweek's update of the infamous New Mexico Microsoft company photo 30 years later (2:00 - 3:30) Jeff shares how Charles…

To kick off Build 2012, we put together a video featuring developers who have helped move the industry forward.  We asked them to share why they love what they do. Hear what they have to say in this video, shown on day one at Build. Participants included: Anders Hejlsberg: Technical Fellow,…

For Microsoft, 1985 brings the announcement of the release of Microsoft MacEnhancer expansion system, the Microsoft Mouse is quarantined in Canada and Microsoft celebrates its 10th Anniversary. There's some great footage of the 1985 Roast in this episode. Previous Episodes:The History of Microsoft…

Laura and Paul are more excited than ever to disagree on the top stories from Microsoft this week. Some examples include: Zuckerberg & Gates give it away, give it away, give it away now Devs & Stats, so happy together Kinect is Winner Winner Chicken Dinner Halo Wars proves: You can't fight…

At the TechEd Conference, Bill Gates gave his last speech as a Microsoft full-time employee and one of the topics he discussed was Microsoft’s vision for cloud computing. (Full transcript is here.) In the speech, Gates spoke of Microsoft’s plan to have “many millions” of servers in the cloud,…

While I was watching NBC Football (or rather, I was surfing FriendFeed and my husband was watching football), when, all of a sudden, I looked up to see Bill Gates on the screen! Yep, it was the first commercial from the new Microsoft ad campaign from Crispin Porter + Bogusky (backstory here),…

I loved me some Shoe Circus. This second installment is perhaps even better.Best lines....Bill: (to Jerry) Why are we doing this again?Jerry: Why Bill? Because as we discussed... you and I are a little out of it. You're living in some kind of moon house hovering over Seattle like the mother ship...…

So my boss, Bill Gates is officially gone.  Not like, gone, gone.  But he won't be in the office everyday anymore.  He has taken on another ambitious and important project and has chosen to spend more time on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  Bill and…

I thought I would give an update with what's happening in the world of Channel 10 .  I make my way through the channel 10 site and talk about specific text posts or videos we have done in the past week or two.  I give this update while goofing around in Halo.  Here are some links to…

Thirty-four years ago, a nineteen year old kid and his twenty-two year old business partner sold their first program to a little computer company in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The program was called BASIC, and it was the start of this company we call Microsoft. Today, we’re beginning a brand new…