Bill Gates

Apple JointVenture targets small shops

Retail staff briefed Sunday on a plan to move into enterprises that aren't yet "confused"

"What I love about the consumer market, that I always hated about the enterprise market, is that we come up with a product, we try to tell everybody about it, and every person votes for themselves... With the enterprise market, it's not so simple. The people that use the products don't decide MORE

Does Apple have a monopoly?

You could argue that it has several, depending on how you define the market

It was only a matter of hours after Steve Jobs announced the terms of Apple's (AAPL) new subscription service Tuesday morning that commentators started dropping the A word -- "antitrust."

"My inclination is to be suspect," Shubha Ghosh, an antitrust professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, told the Wall Street Journal that afternoon. And then he MORE

What's next for the post-Ozzie Microsoft? No one knows.

As a giant of technology departs, it's time to start asking, what's next for Steve Ballmer's Microsoft?

When Microsoft (MSFT) announced Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie would be moving on, some viewed it as another blow to a company with a bit of a vision problem. Ozzie was only the second person to be the company's CSA -- the first being founder Bill Gates, who took the role upon retiring as MORE

Today in Tech: News around the Web

A round-up of the companies, deals, and trends that made headlines.

Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.

"If you bring something  innovative to market, people will respond. I think it's going to do very well." -- AT&T CEO of Mobile Ralph de la MORE

Bill Gates' very full life after Microsoft

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

By Brent Schlender, contributor

When Bill Gates formally stepped away from an active role at Microsoft (MSFT) in July of 2008,  he also hung up his golf clubs. His explanation was as simple as it was revealing: "It takes up too much time to get any good at MORE

Microsoft in the Steve Ballmer era

Bill Gates gave him the keys to the kingdom ten years ago. What has he done since?

There's a turning point that's hard to miss in the infographic the New York Times put together to mark the moment Wednesday when Apple (AAPL) overtook Microsoft (MSFT) to become America's most valuable technology company.

The turnaround -- one of the most remarkable in U.S. corporate history -- dates from January 2000, when Microsoft's MORE

U.S. vs. Apple: Who would win?

Shades of the United States vs. Microsoft, an antitrust case that the government lost

A report in Monday's New York Post that two government agencies -- the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice -- are each considering launching an antitrust investigation against Apple (AAPL) puts me in mind of the case the DOJ and 20 states brought against Microsoft (MSFT) nearly a dozen years ago.

To many observers -- including MORE

The man who won Steve Jobs' trust

Who is Walter Isaacson, and why did Jobs choose him to tell the story of his life?

Apple's iPad event last month was packed cheek to jowl with the famous and well-connected, from John Doerr to Al Gore.  But I was still surprised see my old Time magazine editor in the middle of the action. What in the world was Walter Isaacson doing at an Apple (AAPL) event in San Francisco?

The MORE

Dick Brass: Why Microsoft is 'failing'

The former New York Daily News editor who ran Bill Gates' Tablet PC division tells all

In the week since Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad, there's been a lot of talk about where this leaves Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle.

"But the much more important question," writes Dick Brass in an essay prominently displayed on the OpEd page of Thursday's New York Times,

"is why Microsoft, America's most famous and prosperous technology company, no longer MORE

Microsoft reboots

After the Vista debacle, Microsoft changed the way it makes software. The result – Windows 7 – is winning raves. Can a new operating system (and a new attitude) help the company take on Google?

With Microsoft's founder and chairman, Bill Gates, trotting the globe in a quest to abolish diseases, his handpicked successor, CEO Steve Ballmer, has had most of a decade to move the company beyond its two MORE