After revolutionizing the personal computer, Bill Gates has decided to put an effort into revamping the toilet. Gates has said that he will donate $42 million towards a new environmentally-friendly and cost-effective reinvention. While some of us might take our “number two” stations for granted, developing nations around the world unfortunately do not share the more »

Bing has officially teamed up with Facebook in a move which will give the social networking site deeply rooted integration into the search engine’s results and algorithms. Here’s what Microsoft had to say about the recent team up: “The best decisions are not just fueled by facts, they require the opinions and emotions of your more »

With over 10 million units sold since its launch last November, Microsoft’s Kinect is now the fastest selling device in recorded history according to Guinness World Records. The Kinect’s sales have even topped the likes of Apple’s iPad and iPhone making it one heck of an accessory (considering the fact that each unit sold is more »

Upon hearing news of the Microsoft/Nokia partnership, roughly a thousand disgruntled employees at the Nokia facility in Tampere walked out of work in protest. Seeing as how this will be the first time that Nokia is manufacturing cell phones for a third party OS, current employees are bound to lose jobs left and right. Nokia more »

Microsoft showed off their new and improved version of the Surface. Manufactured by Samsung, the new Surface will be only 4″ thick with some heavy-duty gorilla glass for added screen protection. The device is no longer a giant box that can only be used as a table. Surface 2.0 can be mounted vertically to impersonate more »

It’s about time they started firing back. I can’t imagine that there were too many of you out that weren’t getting sick of those stupid Mac vs PC ads with Justin Long. And seriously, if those commercials actually swayed your purchasing decision between a Mac and a PC, you might as well let a political more »

Rumors that Mr. Xbox, Mr. Zune and the almost Mr. Courier, J Allard, will be parting ways with Microsoft. This whole mess began when Steve Ballmer decided to pull the plug on the Courier (or as I like to to call it, the iPad 2.0). Allard did not take to kindly to this and according more »

According to some emails turned over by Microsoft during an investigation into antitrust action, Microsoft was in awe of the deals Apple’s Steve Jobs worked to create iTunes. Emails from the big man himself, Bill Gates, to his team revealed his amazement and his teams response, “we got smoked.” Clarke’s law says, “any sufficiently advanced more »

It is no secret that Bill and Melinda Gates are generous in terms of charity work, and it also seems that they are willing to open up their home to one lucky bidder. In the name of charity of course. Each year they participate in a charity auction, at which one of the items that more »

It seems the current economy can now be blamed for both the rich as well as the poor losing money. In recent news Bill Gates has lost $7 billion in this last year. Of course, while that may sound bad, truth be told he is still very rich. According to the recently published Forbes list more »