Bill Gates leaves Microsoft

Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman and one of the richest people in the world, leaving their posts manager in the world’s largest software corporation.

Mr Gates whose all its enormous success through the development of software for personal computers, plans to devote its time charitable work.

As another student, Bill Gates has been able to foresee the emergence of personal computers on every desk and in every house. Gates said he could foresee the future, and founded his career on the basis that he saw.

The son of a successful lawyer from Seattle, Bill Gates is programmed his first computer at the age of 13 years. Throughout his two-year study at Harvard, he spent a lot of time, improving their programming skills. Bill has done so with the same pleasure, with what could prosidet all-night party for regular poker. Eventually, he dropped his studies at Harvard and moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where together with his school friend Paul Allen (Paul Allen) corporation founded Microsoft.

A unique chance for a small company then gave Microsoft Corporation IBM, has signed an agreement establishing the operating system, which later became known as MS-DOS.

Their first 31 billion – but the old Bill Gates earned in 1986. In his interview with BBC, Gates explained that his corporation all spared because “most of the competitors simply too slow in moving forward. They do not understand how to attract people with business experience and people with engineering experience, and organize their work together. They did not understand how to reach the worldwide market. “

Now Bill Gates 52 years, and he is no longer the richest man on the planet. He walked around Uoren investor Buffett (Warren Buffett) and Mexican telecommunications tycoon Carlos Slim (Carlos Slim). Mr Gates is going to leave their daily work to ensure that, together with his wife Melinda Gates Foundation to concentrate on their charitable organization.

He will continue to work on special projects for corporations, but as Bill Gates himself said: “very great wealth brings great responsibility.” His future work will include the search for new vaccines and funding for projects in developing countries.

For more information on supporting Microsoft Windows XP

The unprecedented step by the corporation Microsoft – providing technical support to users operating system, which was published in 2001, and at the time of termination by the corporation technical support it will be full 13 years! Senior Vice President of Microsoft Corporation Bill Veghte, in his letter to customers said that software developers will continue to provide security updates and other critical updates for Windows XP until April 2014.

“Our continued support Windows XP operating system is the result of our recognition that people use their Windows-PCs for many years” – writes Bill Veghte. Typically, Microsoft OS support ceases for a period of ten years since its release. For example, it plans to discontinue support for Windows 2000 in 2010.

Microsoft may not have choice but to implement technical support Windows XP for a long period, given that most of its major business customers have not upgraded their personal computers and laptops with the new operating system Windows Vista.

China conducts anti-monopoly investigation. The first target – Microsoft

Chinese financial daily Shanghai Security News reported that the Government has initiated antitrust investigation on the issue, not whether Microsoft illegal monopoly in the Chinese technology market research. Such an inquiry – not the first against the sotfvernomu giant, but it strikes at his reputation and possibly lead to a partial reduction of profit in the markets aziyskih countries. A set of software Microsoft Office + Windows in China is about 7000 yuan, or $ 1015. As a result, Chinese companies openly encourage piracy.

The new state project to fight against monopolies will be valid only after six weeks, that is, will enter into force on 1 August. Microsoft is not the only company that came under the attention of the Anti-Monopoly Committee of China, but its work has the highest number of claims.

Microsoft promises to release Windows 7 on schedule

Despite the spread of various rumours about the release date of the next generation operating system, now known as Windows 7, Microsoft is not going to go back on their word. In his letter, senior vice president of Microsoft Bill Veghte confirmed that the next operating system must go approximately three years after the official launch date of OS Windows Vista – January 2007.
But the most interesting part letter, perhaps, is something like Bill Viht explained its message about the date of release: “You have asked more regular and predictable timetable for withdrawal OS Windows”, – he writes. “You need to just ask to get an answer. But one question remains: how Microsoft intends to implement all this?”

Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard 2009

At a conference for developers TechEd North America company Microsoft announced the launch of the programme Windows Embedded Standard 2009. It was said that the final stage of the development programme will be in the fourth quarter of 2008.

Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard 2009, as embedded operating system, is aimed at suppliers of OEM. Above all it will develop new devices that can at any time connected with the existing business structures. Among these devices: office terminals, multifunctional printers, intelligent network.

Windows Embedded Standard 2009, including a technology such as NET Framework 3.5, Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Media Player 11, will also be compatible with technology Silverlight (through a plug). Foo might think that this technology competes with Flash and Flex. In fact, Adobe offered more interactivity, and the interface has turned out more successful.

The developers choose XP

According to the report on the latest research analysts from Evans Data Corporation only 8 per cent of developers targeting Windows Vista. 49 per cent of developers – the predecessor to Vista, the operating system Windows XP. Even Linux bypassing Windows Vista with approximately 13 percent of the audience developers, to concentrate on open-source systems.

After two years of consultation with the developers of North America, analysts note the company’s continued problems for Microsoft. Even a year after release, Windows Vista has still not been able to seize the advantage in enterprises and business structures, preferring to use the proven Windows XP. John Andrews, President and Chief Executive Officer Evans Data Corporation, argues that developers simply wait and hesitant to work with Windows Vista, because “new operating system has more than predostatochno problems”: a problem with drivers, incompatibility of software, high hardware requirements.

Forecasts for next year more positive. It is expected that Vista will work with 24 per cent of developers. However, ahead of XP and can not be, since she devote its attention 29 per cent of developers. These data suggest a much more bright future for Vista. More strife for Microsoft will bring invasion Linux. Despite the progress predicted for Linux, a much more modest than for Vista – Evans Data estimated 15 per cent in 2009, developers will write software for Linux – they indicate that the developers slowly but surely turn away from Windows.

HPC Server 2008 RC1 is expected this month

At the International Supercomputing Conference held this week in Germany, Microsoft Corporation announced the release first release (Release Candidate 1) of its Windows HPC Server 2008 for high-speed computing. He is expected in the last week of July.

At this time conducted beta testing the server. The provisional version of HPC Server 2008 is working on the equipment Dell PowerEdge, located at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Hundreds of universities have already test HPC Server 2008, heir Microsoft Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS 2003). Of all the NCSA systems, a system called Abe, took the highest position to date list of all TOP-500, issuing 68.48 teraflops (trillion floating-point operations per second). She uses her work in 2400 Quad processor Intel Xeon 2.3GHz, and, in turn, each processor supports 4 GB of memory. A total of 9600 GB of memory is used.

Facts about the future of Windows XP – support till 2014

Last year, users expressed their protest against the cessation of support for Windows XP corporation Microsoft. And we heard them. Therefore, we defer its plan to halt sales of the OS until June 30, 2008. We like the way you like Windows XP. We saw it on our web site, through e-mail, as well as through independent online petition. Our engineers are working hard not hand over the creation of innovative software that would meet the needs of our customers. This is a good thing when you tell us what we have done something in another way. But our commitment to innovation sometimes means doing the hard choices. And this is one of them.

After careful negotiations with our customers and partners, we decided to continue our plan gradually stop selling Windows XP in June. We plan to support Windows XP until 2014. We know that there have been many questions about our plans.

Let us be clear: although Windows XP and will no longer be sold in stores, Microsoft Corporation and its partners will continue to offer technical support for Windows XP for many months and years. In fact, Microsoft plans to provide technical support for Windows XP until 2014. We are proud of Windows XP – software product, which was able to obtain recognition of hundreds of millions of people worldwide over the past eight years. But technology does not stand on the spot. And we also can not do so.

The new video site Microsoft (Beta)

Microsoft Corporation has established a centralized repository of their videos in the global Internet. The site is available for navigating through video files, such as: last added video search all video files, or navigate through specially sorted directory. After viewing a video of interest, any user will be able to assess it. If you’ve liked the video, he can share it with your friends or send yourself, using a direct link to this file. To use this service, the computer must be installed special free plug – Microsoft Silverlight plug-in.

Homepage: Microsoft Video Site (Beta)

Sales of Windows XP will continue until the finishing line

Such computer manufacturers like HP, Acer and Lenovo are planning to sell their PCs preloaded with Microsoft Windows XP operating system until the finishing line, which is said corporation Microsoft, will occur on June 30. And only company Dell will stop selling its PCs with Windows XP on board will come before the finishing line.

Microsoft has set a mark on June 30 – as the final date when assemblers and manufacturers of computer equipment can still sell their PCs preloaded with Windows XP, although the corporation had recently said that after that date, the old operating system will not disappear.