Word: microsoft
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although the founder of Microsoft undoubtedly spends most of his time "innovating" and exercising his monopoly power in the software industry, the famed Harvard dropout is also responsible for offering $400 to every man, woman and child in California...
...Microsoft has for some time offered a $400 rebate at stores including Best Buy, Office Depot and Staples to customers signing up for three years of Microsoft Network Internet service. But through a quirk of commercial law, California residents can cancel the service at any time—and keep the rebate. In essence, Microsoft will pay them $400 to buy computer equipment...
Yesterday Microsoft CEO Bill Gates and Apple CEO (yes, CEO - more on that later) Steve Jobs delivered two separate but equally interesting speeches about the future of their two companies. Jobs focused on the look and feel of the Mac of the future, while Gates talked about convergence in the wired home of the future...
...photo of his beaming children, taken with a digital camera and put on a CD, to a screen in his home in Connecticut, where the kids are playing Pokemon (don't ask) or dancing to Livin' la Vida Loca (don't ask), before he trades a hundred shares of Microsoft, transfers some cash, buys a Palm Pilot for his wife (who's doing Pilates at the health club this afternoon), auctions off the cabin in Vermont, then orders one set of tickets to a black-tie dinner for breast cancer and another to the latest off-off-off-Broadway play...