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Tech's biggest loser: Bill Gates
The collective net worth of the super rich on Forbes's annual list of the 400 wealthiest Americans fell by $300 billion over the past 12 months, and the tech sector spilled its share of the red ink.
Microsoft's Bill Gates lost the most -- at least on paper. His net worth dropped from $57 to $50 billion, not enough, however, to keep him from topping the list for the 16th year MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 1, 2009 6:23 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Bill Gates, Google, Jeff Bezos, Michael Dell, Microsoft, Paul Allen, Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs -
Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7: The War of the Wallpapers
"I would give a lot to have Steve's taste."
Bill Gates said that of Steve Jobs at the D5 conference two years ago, and we knew exactly what he meant.
Take, for example, the two images above. They are samples of the new desktop images offered by this fall's big operating system updates: Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows 7, scheduled for release in October, and Apple's (AAPL) Snow Leopard, due in September.
Can you guess MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 11, 2009 8:13 AM ET -
The day Bill Gates didn't call me a communist
This one is for Bill Gates.
He was 27 when I first met him. It was 1983 and he was in New York hustling a new laptop (the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100) that came with Microsoft software in ROM. I remember him rocking back and forth, as if to contain his impatience, when asked if there was an UNDO key.
In those days, before Microsoft became a software colossus, he or MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 28, 2008 6:34 AM ET -
Steve Jobs passes Bill Gates in Fame-O-Meter
It's hard to tell what is more surprising about Radar's latest Fame-O-Meter results: that Steve Jobs has only now passed Bill Gates in the magazine's "buzz index," or that Radar thinks Rupert Murdoch is a "Web 2.0 figure."
The Fame-O-Meter, according to the magazine's website, is an "absurdly scientific real-time" measure of the "notoriety and cultural relevance" of public figures based on the number of times they appear in news publications, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 16, 2008 3:42 PM ET -
140 million copies of Vista sold. How does Leopard compare?
Apple has no numbers to compare with the 140 million copies of Vista that Bill Gates says Microsoft (MSFT) has sold since the latest version of Windows started shipping in late 2006. (link)
Literally, no numbers. The last time Apple (AAPL) released a Leopard sales figure was Oct. 30, 2007, when the company said that it had sold more than 2 million copies of Leopard in one long weekend (see here). MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 8, 2008 4:33 PM ET -
Why Microsoft won't make an iPhone
Has Bill Gates learned the lesson of Zune?
Having gone up against the iPod with Microsoft's (MSFT) MP3 player and failed to make much of a dent in Apple's (AAPL) dominant share of the portable digital music market, Gates seems to be conceding the field for all-in-one devices to the iPhone.
Thompson Financial reports today that in an interview with a German newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Microsoft's chairman said he did not MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 9, 2008 9:14 AM ET
