By Reshma Kumar at September 14, 2008 4 Comments
The second installment of the ad campaign for Windows Vista featuring Microsoft Chairman, Bill Gates, and comedian, Jerry Seinfeld, is out. The first installment, Shoe Circus, received mixed reviews. But here is the next in the series titled, New Family. You be the judge. What do you think of this one? Do you think it brings the cool factor to Microsoft? Does it get you all excited about Windows and make you wanna go out and buy Vista?
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By Reshma Kumar at September 08, 2008 6 Comments
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Microsoft has kicked off its new ad campaign for Windows featuring comedian, Jerry Seinfeld, and Microsoft’s Chairman, Bill Gates. Bill is at a Shoe Circus Discount Store trying on shoes where Jerry sees him from outside the store and proceeds in to chat with him. Bill is trying on a pleather shoe and Jerry convinces him to get a Conquistador. More»
Labels: Bill Gates, Microsoft
By Daya Baran at June 25, 2008 0 Comments
The Seattle Post reprinted an email by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates that he sent to his lieutenants in 2003 on the usability of Microsoft products. The article describes him as “chief rabble-rouser”, and even the Microsoft co-founder — who champions the “magic of software” — isn’t immune to the frustrations of everyday computer users.
—- Original Message —-
From: Bill GatesSent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:05 AMTo: Jim AllchinCc: Chris Jones (WINDOWS); Bharat Shah (NT); Joe Peterson; Will Poole; Brian Valentine; Anoop Gupta (RESEARCH)Subject: Windows Usability Systematic degradation flame
I am quite More»
Labels: Bill Gates, Microsoft, usability, user experience
By Daya Baran at June 16, 2008 1 Comments
Tag Clouds categories content on a website. Many tags can be used to describe the same content. The font size of a word or phrase in a tag cloud conveys the popularity the content being referenced to on that particular website.
Below are some tag clouds generated from speech transcripts and blogs of famous people.
A More Perfect Union – by Senator Barack Obama
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Labels: barack obama, bill clinton, Bill Gates, martin luther king, Steve Jobs, tag cloud
By Daya Baran at May 22, 2008 3 Comments
Bill Gates has reneged on his promise to donate £1 million to Charles’s charity, the Prince’s Trust. Instead Mr. Gates donated £250,000 worth of software which Microsoft sources claim to be worth £5 million.
Tea Will Not Be Served: Either way Charles’ mummy Queen Elizabeth was not very happy with Mr. Gates. Mr. Gates had agreed in principle to give the money to the organization’s Business Program, which helps young people start their own companies. But negotiations between Microsoft and the Prince’s Trust broke down and the More»
Labels: Bill Gates, Microsoft, software, startups
By Daya Baran at February 19, 2008 0 Comments
Chairman Gates deleted his Facebook account after getting thousands of mortgage refinance requests due to the sub prime crisis and thousands more friend requests from non friends.
However, when other Facebook users tried to follow suit they had a difficult time so much so that Nipon Das, a Manhattan business consultant went so far as to threaten legal action in order to quit Facebook.
“Facebook has made it extremely difficult to delete accounts”, said several users. After receiving confirmation by e-mail of the deletion from Facebook’s technical support team user were surprised to learn their accounts were still active.
Katie Geminder, Facebook’s More»
Labels: Bill Gates, Facebook
By Daya Baran at February 13, 2008 0 Comments
Microsoft Chairman and Founder Bill Gates has stopped using Facebook and has delete his account after being hassled by thousands of fans. The Chairman was inundated by over 8,000 friend requested a day and thousands of loan refinance requests fueled by the mortgage meltdown.
Chairman Gates became so hooked on the site that he decided to invested $240 million regardless of valuation just to own a piece of it. He spent about 30 minutes a day chatting with friends and searching the site (ah that’s where he got the idea More»
Labels: Bill Gates, Facebook, Microsoft, Search
By Joseph Hunkins at January 07, 2008 3 Comments
Jerry Yang spoke about Yahoo a few hours ago, and I’d have to say the talk was lackluster given the amount of attention the markets are paying to Yahoo leadership right now, and given the slick Gates keynote of yesterday. (C’mon Jerry - no Guitar Hero action?).
Yahoo spent a lot of time talking about and “introducing” Yahoo Go” Version 3, a product I that I think is not all that familiar even in many “insiders”, but Jerry treated Yahoo More»
Labels: Bill Gates, filo, Terry Semel, Yahoo, yang
By Daya Baran at January 07, 2008 1 Comments
Bill Gates gets to the office as usual.
He gets to work right away.
He takes a break and takes up singing.
Bono, do you need a vocalist?
Would you like a Zune with that?
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Labels: Bill Gates, Blogs, CES, Microsoft
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