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...much of his $63 billion fortune would Gates give if he could? We'll never know. But the fact that so many of his employees have given the limit is a sign that there are some sleeping giants awakening in Washington State. Both Redmond and Real keep a lobbying presence in the "other" Washington. Now they are grasping the importance of having influence directly inside the Senate. Issues like Internet taxation and H1-B visas for overseas tech workers just keep cropping up too often, and the technology itself just moves too fast. "Not many Senators know what a software...
...Microsoft - whose stock hopped on the news but is still well below its highs from less troubled times - now gets its chance to put what it hopes will be a Wen Ho Lee-esque spin on the case. Redmond's lawyers will be taking a basket of procedural complaints and charges of government sloppiness to a court much more suited to hearing them than the Supremes would be, and Justice will likely find itself forced to defend its tactics as well as the issues at stake. For Bill Gates, that's well worth another year in purgatory...
Stonesifer, sitting in a coffeehouse in Redmond, Wash., draws a diagram of a river, then stick-figure babies floating in the river and then her plan for heading upstream to where those babies are falling into the river and solving the problem there. She's told this story two dozen times. But there is a fervor in her brown eyes and a drill-to-the-core focus that made her the top female executive at Microsoft until her retirement, at age 40, in 1997. She does not draw a salary for her work with the Gates Foundation. "We have...
Gates, when you sit down with him in his Redmond office, rocks back and forth as he falls into a reverie about "the world-health thing." He says, "The more people know about this--about the millions of lives that can be saved, about the millions of children who are dying of disease every year that we have cures for--then how can you not do something about it? The most important priority for me is saying we could save millions of lives a year." That is a heady thought even for the richest man in the world. How many...
NOTHING BUT DOT-NET Where do you want to go? If you're Microsoft, to the Internet--and fast. That's the message an invitation-only group of reporters and Wall Street analysts heard last week at the software giant's Redmond, Wash., campus. Gates & Co. unveiled .NET ("dot-net"), a clunkily named companywide initiative that aims to at long last yank the company--whose main products still come shrink-wrapped--into the Internet age. Gates and his troops hauled out gadgets that were truly cool (a new Net-friendly tablet PC you write on with a pen), and videos...