Bill Gates the founder and former CEO of Microsoft, sat down for an interview with “Nightline” ABC News in which he discussed several topics about his private life and the moments he shared with Steve Jobs. Gates talked in detail about his last meeting he had with Steve Jobs at his house a few days prior to his death, and how his passing affected him.

The holidays are over and chances are good you had to head back to work this week. CloudOn wants to help with their MS Office app that creates, views and edits Excel, Word and PowerPoint files. Now you can work anywhere. Joy. In case you’ve had enough work, you’ll enjoy the other great apps and games I found, all of which will only be free for a limited time.

How about we fill your iOS device with games? Soccer fans are in for a treat; Real Soccer 2012 is just out and it’s full of new features to make the game even more fun and realistic. If soccer isn’t your thing, maybe controlling an entire city is more your style. EA is back with another Sims game. There’s much more, but you’re just going to have to click through.

Microsoft’s OneNote, which first landed on the iPhone, allows you to create and edit OneNote notes and notebooks and save them to the Cloud with Windows Live SkyDive account. While the iPhone version was compatible with the iPad, it wasn’t optimized for the larger screen on the tablet. However, Microsoft published on their blog that they’ve now made their popular note-taking app available in an iPad optimized version.

Skype has updated both its iPad andiPhone/iPod touch apps today, adding new features such as image stabilization (only when using rear camera), emoticons, support for Bluetooth headsets on the iPad 2, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and fourth-generation iPod touch, and a fix for a security vulnerability. Unfortunately, the new Skype for iOS update also brings with it advertisements, which haven’t been present until now.

More evidence that desktop Linux is spinning its wheels—alas, stuck at less than one percent OS market share for the past several months according to Hitslink metrics—is to be found in Microsoft’s latest Annual Report to the United States Securities And Exchange Commission, in which Linux is no longer cited as a competitor to the Windows operating system.

Skype has announced its release of Skype 5.3 for OS X, which brings full support for OS X Lion and HD video calling to the popular VoIP app. This release comes just a month after Skype 5.2 was released for OS X, which was also a major update that added features such as screen sharing, in group calls for premium subscribers, and an updated call control bar that supported video calls.

According to a new support document from Apple, the OS X utility Boot Camp—which allows a Mac owner to run Windows on a separate partition—now allows only Windows 7 to be installed in a fresh OS X Lion installation. This is because version 4 of Boot Camp that comes with OS X Lion requires an authentic 32- or 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate disc.

Microsoft has this week introduced its new series of mice, dubbed the Explorer Touch, capable of multitouch and priced at only $49.95 compared to Apple’s Magic Mouse (that shares quite a few similarities with the Explorer Touch) which goes for $19 more at $69. The new Explorer Touch has features similar to Microsoft’s other series of mice, the Arc Touch, with a touch strip for four-way (horizontal and vertical) scrolling, programmable buttons, and much more.

Amidst stories that Microsoft is buying Skype for an outrageous $7 to $8 billion, a serious security vulnerability in the Skype 5 client for Mac OS X has been patched with a hotfix that has just been released for the software. The security threat could have potentially exposed your Mac to attacks from malicious contacts through an instant message, although thankfully no exploit had been developed or used before the Skype development team patched the flaw with the latest version, 5.1.0.935.