[Uploaded on flickr on December 29, 2005 by niallkennedy]
With the departure of Bill Gates from the day to day running of Microsoft it marks an end of an era for Microsoft and one of the truly great business icons. However Gates is not remarkable for the technology he produced, but for his ability to transform [...]

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Those of us who are used to the nightmare of upgrading and installing software on Windows will relate to Bill Gates 2003 experience when he tried to download and install Moviemaker:
I decided to download (Moviemaker) and buy the Digital Plus pack … so I went to Microsoft.com. They have a download place so I went [...]

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[Uploaded on March 17, 2008 by Carlo Alberto Della Siega]
A club to celebrate the love child between Steve Ballmer and Robbie the Robot, otherwise known as the Zune player has opened in downtown LA:
Zune L.A., formerly photographer Greg Gorman’s studio, serves as an office for a handful of the Microsoft music player’s employees [...]

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In our ongoing series on technology that has gone the way of the dinosaur, this week Polaroid announced the demise of the instant camera with the closure of the manufacturing:
Yesterday, the company behind the iconic instant camera announced it was to stop making the film used by Polaroid enthusiasts, because there is no longer a [...]

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