Not much of a paper chase for Microsoft's chairman, who uses a range of digital tools to do business. FORTUNE: April 7, 2006 ( more)
What two empire builders, Bill Gates and Richard Schulze, wish they had learned in the classroom. FSB: March 1, 2006 ( more)
Warren Buffett and Bill Gates answer questions, first for 2,000 Nebraska students, then for FORTUNE's Daniel Roth. The billionaire buddies on the economy, philanthropy, and investment strategy--an exclusive report. FORTUNE: October 31, 2005 ( more)
Microsoft's top geek and his newest tech guru explain why they love--and hate--e-mail, and how they plan to fix it. FORTUNE: June 27, 2005 ( more)
Michael Larson, the man who runs Bill Gates' money, runs about $44 billion, some $17 billion of which is Gates' personal fortune. FORTUNE: May 3, 2004 ( more)
A cadre of young, scary-smart executives is coming into power at the world's most important tech company. Someday one of them will be boss. Business 2.0: October, 2003 ( more)
Why Bill Gates still holds the key to Microsoft's future FORTUNE: July 8, 2002 ( more)
In a frank chat with FORTUNE's Brent Schlender, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer talk about their partnership and how it will shape Microsoft in the 21st century. FORTUNE: October 25, 1999 ( more)
Like a lot of people, he's got stocks, bonds, and a money manager. But there are differences. For one thing, his personal portfolio is the size of a large mutual fund. FORTUNE: March 15, 1999 ( more)
What do you get when you put a billionaire buddy act, Gates and Buffett, in front of 350 students? $84 billion of inspiration. FORTUNE: July 20, 1998 ( more)
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A newly likeable Bill Gates isn't afraid to admit his company is lagging in some areas, says FORTUNE's Adam Lashinsky. FORTUNE: June 13, 2006 ( more)
Brutal competition. A stock going nowhere. Microsoft is in crisis, so Bill Gates has unleashed his new hire, software genius Ray Ozzie, to remake the company - and conquer the Web. FORTUNE: April 18, 2006 ( more)
'Willy Gates' and his software empire are trying to shed a stale image and lure coveted content partners. FORTUNE: June 8, 2006 ( more)
The software giant's plan to build datacenters the size of 10 Costcos, complete with electrical substations, signals a major shift in the industry's fundamental economics. FORTUNE: May 5, 2006 ( more)
Microsoft's new OS chief has to get Redmond to embrace a new model of programming, in which software is constantly being improved instead of updated every 5 years. Business 2.0: March 24, 2006 ( more)
Bill Gates is on a mission to build a Google killer. What got him so riled? The darling of search is moving into software--and that's Microsoft's turf. FORTUNE: May 2, 2005 ( more)
By spending lots of money--of course--but also by doing lots of creative lobbying you don't know about. FORTUNE: April 29, 2002 ( more)
Both sides came out with lawyers blazing as federal antitrust chief Joel Klein's prosecutors went gunning for the Bill Gates gang. Behind the scenes at the Microsoft trial. FORTUNE: November 23, 1998 ( more)
Through his Live initiative, Ozzie is getting Redmond's programmers to embrace the Web. Business 2.0: May, 2006 ( more)
The software giant is in crisis, so Bill Gates has a new play to remake the company - and his name is Ray Ozzie. FORTUNE: April 19, 2006 ( more)
Bill Gates finally recruited software star Ray Ozzie--by buying his whole company, Groove Networks. FORTUNE: April 4, 2005 ( more)
Ray Ozzie invented Notes, the software that inspired IBM to pay $3.5 billion for Lotus. His new program is Groove, and it could be an even bigger deal. FORTUNE: February 19, 2001 ( more)
Every day, Microsoft's grip on the software universe grows a little tighter. Yet there's one fast-growing market in which this $4-billion-a-year omnivore has been utterly stymied. In groupware, Lotus Development rules. FORTUNE: December 12, 1994 ( more)
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