Microsoft and the US Department of Justice could settle any day now. Michael Cross, who reported on the last time an IT giant fell foul of competition policy, compares the Microsoft trial to IBM's anti-trust battle of the 1970s.
Billionaires age gently. On 7 December 1995, Bill Gates had just turned 40, but he could still play the part of an earnest teenager as he told a Seattle hall packed with journalists and analysts ab...
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