Harvard welcomes the world's richest college drop-out.

Sophos security expert points out Bill's folly.

Multi-billionaire initially refused visa.

No matter how much we tell ourselves that we are rational, scientific human beings a Friday 13th still sends a tremor up some spines.

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PC Authority takes a trip down computer memory lane and discovers just how PC technology has evolved... and how Microsoft and IBM nearly destroyed each other.

Believe it or not, but Microsoft weren't always so web friendly. In fact, it was Bill Gates who initially panned the internet and Microsoft's future in it. So what turned it all around?

Apple’s ads may be funny, but they’re woefully inaccurate. Here we reveal dozens of reasons why the PC outclasses the Mac.

One of the best-publicised alternative OSes is the MacOS. Theres a long rivalry between PC and Macintosh users. Both sides believe passionately in their OS, a fact which, in the past, has led t

Bill Gates claims the future of computing lies with the PC, but Davey Winder says future devices must combine form with functionality. TThere can be little doubt that the PC has come a lo

Why some argue Bill Gates effectively "saved" Apple on this day in 1997. Also: the official Windows 7 upgrade chart, win a Canon EOS 500D

Then the heavens fell in. In 1995, Bill Gates decided that the Internet was going to be huge. Everything had to take on an HTML nature and the battle was on with Netscape. One of the fir

A million music downloads, movies on demand and copies signed by Bill Gates.

Comedian kicks off Microsoft's biggest ever consumer marketing blitz.

An older TV, but in its day one of the best picture performances we'd ever seen

Some bright spark in Microsoft's marketing department has apparently decided that the what will turn around flagging Vista sales is for it to be pitched by Jerry Seinfeld.

Intel has created fully functional 70Mb static random access memory (SRAM) chips with more than half a billion transistors using advanced nm process technology.

1960 Hypertext Conventional wisdom has it that the Internet started off as an American defence and educational network, then Tim Berners-Lee came along and invented the World

As the picture of the brains structure became clearer, it began to look very much like a trunk telephone network. Its not surprising that by the mid-20th century the brain was often described by analo

PC Authority takes a stroll through 2,500 years of computing history. Next month, we look at the future. Whether you work directly in IT, or even just about anywhere in todays soci