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INTERVIEW
'There's No Year That I Didn't Love My Job'
Steven Levy 6/22/2008 12:00:00 AM
As Bill Gates wrapped up his tenure as a full-timer at Microsoft, as part of his plan to focus his energies on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he sat down with NEWSWEEK's Steven Levy to talk about his legacy, the good days and difficult ones at Micrcosoft, and his future at the foundation. Excerpts.
TECHNOLOGY
Living in the Clouds
Brian Braiker 6/10/2008 12:00:00 AM
Like a growing number of companies, the New York Times has its head in the clouds—at least the part of its head that contains its memory. Without using a byte of its own processing power, the newspaper last month provided free, fully searchable access to its 1851 to 1922 archive—more than 15 million articles. How? Derek Gottfrid, the Times's senior software architect, outsourced and used Amazon’s cloud computing service. The result is the TimesMachine, a cool application that runs on the paper's Web site and is stored on Amazon's servers. "If we had to do it internally, we probably wouldn't have done it," Gottfrid tells NEWSWEEK.
Dialing Into the Future
Steven Levy 6/9/2008 12:00:00 AM
Steve Jobs always tries to save the best for last. Today, at the end of his keynote speech at the Apple Worldwide Developer's Conference, he unleashed a kicker that he knew would make some headlines. Everybody knew that the big product announcement was going to be a souped-up version of the iPhone that exchanged the molasses of AT&T's EDGE data network (barely better than dial-up) for the greasy lighting of 3G broadband (more like Wi-Fi). No one was surprised that Apple would catch up with competitors by building GPS location technology into the phone. And it was a foregone conclusion that Jobs would demonstrate a number of new applications that took advantage of a software development kit (SDK) released to apps creators earlier this year.
TECHNOLOGY
Ménage a Yahoo
4/10/2008 12:00:00 AM
Will it be Google or AOL? Yahoo executives are willing to team up with competitors to craft a new future for their company—provided those competitors don't include Microsoft. But Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer still has a card to play: He's enlisted the support of Rupert Murdoch to create a partnership that would involve combining Yahoo, Microsoft's MSN and News Corp. social-networking site MySpace.
TECHNOLOGY
Microsoft After Gates. (And Bill After Microsoft.)
Steven Levy
In some respects, this week won't be terribly different for bill Gates than the previous 1,712 weeks he has spent working full-time at Microsoft, the company he co-founded as a teenager. The 52-year-old icon has some one-on-one meetings scheduled with a few of his top technical executives. He has some customer meetings. And, as often happens, he'll go to the television studio on Microsoft's Redmond, Wash., campus to tape a few messages for events he won't be able to attend. In addition, he says, "I hope to write a few memos."
TECHNOLOGY
Return of the ’70s Weirdos

That photo of 11 weirdos in '70s clothes you may have seen on the Internet really is the original Microsoft team, snapped Dec. 7, 1978, on the eve of the company's move from Albuquerque, N.M., to Seattle. Almost 30 years later, a few weeks before Bill Gates's departure from Microsoft, the group (looking better) reconvened.