Bill Gates "feel[s] strongly about" Intel not even supporting anyone but Microsoft

Microsoft's affair with Intel reveals a scarcely-known reality about Intel's Linux affinity (and Windows disdain)

A closer look at Walter Bender's recent public talk and more disenchanting news about the activities of Bill Gates

Bill Gates steps down as the Chairman of Microsoft on July 1st to transition to full time philanthropic efforts with the Gates Foundation. However, I wonder how effective Bill will be other than writing checks. You see Bill's never played well with others.

Bill Gates' Searete is looking to make money from natural disasters. IT HAS been a long time since we last wrote about Searete, which is Bill Gates'; very own patent-trolling firm [1, 2, 3]. As the Gates-backed Intellectual Ventures demonstrates, these sleeping giant trolls sooner or later go offensive and proceed to extortion.

In a Microsoft conversation that gives away fear of Apple, Gates still shows his desire to encumber computer components with patents

Bill Gates' new company is accumulating patents and operating as a shell

To pay so much attention to Bill Gates' retirement is missing the point. What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software companies, imposes on its customers.

"Hear what Microsoft's chairman Bill Gates had to say during his last official visit to the UK before he 'retires' later this year. IT PRO attended the special event hosted by the Institute of Directors (IoD) and, after Gates had done his thing there was a Q&A session with the billionaire and industry figurehead." And also note how some of his answers match up rather nicely with F/OSS.