Those who promote homophobia, racism and religious persecution have all found their way online and are finding it the ideal way to voice their opinions from the comparative safety of their homes - with the added benefit of a global audience.
This week at the software giant's Professional Developers Conference, Gates rallied the troops - software developers, Microsoft's most important audience - to build enthusiasm for Vista, the oft-delayed new version of Windows, and Office 12, an...
I bet most people in this audience will trust it day one - on their home computer," he joked. Microsoft last month made available to developers a set of application programming interfaces to its MSN and other public websites.
For the time being they remain far too expensive for most but sooner or later they will appear to a wider audience. For my part, I'd like to start with a system that manages all my interfaces and remembers all my habits.
Gates told the audience: "This is my last [CES] keynote. In his annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) address, the Microsoft chairman demonstrated a slew of fashionable PCs, touted the role of computing interfaces like speech and touch, as well as...
What we're doing we're bringing these security and compliance offerings to as wide an audience as possible by simplifying the way in which they're purchased. Google has launched a range of web-based security applications for email filtering...