BILL GATES

For our fourth-ever IBTTalks roundtable discussion, the IBTimes' technology team discussed the departure of Steven Sinofsky at Microsoft and what impact that would have on Windows 8 and the entire Windows platform.

Here's an idea: If Apple doesn't want Forstall's expertise on its mobile software anymore, Microsoft is looking for a new head for Windows.

Microsoft Corp., the world's top software company, ousted Windows VP Steve Sinofsky, 47, only weeks after shipment of Windows 8.

After years of waiting, fans on Election Tuesday got their first taste of the Halo franchise and the return of Master Chief under the new management. Critics are saying "Halo 4" is the best one yet.

George Lucas, the creator of "Star Wars," is giving $4.04 billion to education following a deal to sell Lucasfilm to the Walt Disney Company.

The release date for Windows 8 is only one day away, and Microsoft is holding its event in New York City to showcase the finished product.

The release date for Windows 8 is less than a week away, and former Microsoft CEO and chairman Bill Gates has discussed the company's future.

The tragic story of a Canadian teen who was driven to suicide by bullying has gripped thousands of people across North America and inspired countless tributes.

Ahead of his sentencing later this month, former director of Goldman Sachs Rajat Gupta has got support from prominent personalities like former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates who advocated a lenient sentence for insider trading, the Wall Street Journal has reported.

In a letter to shareholders Tuesday, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer has officially stated that Microsoft is a devices and services company.

On the first anniversary of his death, here are a select number of the best letters written to Apple's visionary, Steve Jobs. Letters To Steve Jobs: Apple Fans Mourn The Death Of A Visionary

For the first time ever, there are now more millionaires in Asia than in North America.

The Romneys love Costco, whose co-founder is a major backer of Barack Obama. The political leanings top executives gives no credence to the idea one party is the party of big business.

The Gates Foundation is aiming to address a prevalent problem for the urban poor and the developing world: the lack of a hygienic place to poop.

Bill Gates, the man responsible for bringing software to the masses with Microsoft and Windows, has plans to reinvent another industry: Sanitation. Gates, whose philanthropic efforts have helped bring clean water and resources to developing countries via the foundation founded by he and his wife Melinda, said on Wednesday that he plans to build a toilet that's better suited to developing countries in an effort to cut down on disease and death in those regions.

Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of online retailer Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN), and his wife Mackenzie Bezos have pledged $2.5 million to help defend same-sex marriage in Washington state. Will this move affect Amazon as did forays into the culture wars made by Chick-fil-A Inc., Kraft Foods Inc., and other companies?

Speaking on the first day of the 2012 International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., chief executives from over 20 leading multinational corporations called upon 46 countries to lift travel restrictions on HIV-positive individuals.

Apple has released the film Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview, which features nearly 70 minutes of unedited, never-before-seen footage of a conversation between the iconic Apple founder and technology expert Robert X. Cringely, is now available on the iTunes Music Store for $3.99.

Lanai, Hawaii, was once known as the pineapple capital of the world. Then the pineapple plantations became four-star resorts. What's next? That's up to the new owner: American billionaire Larry Ellison.

Larry Ellison, the CEO of software giant Oracle, is said to have paid between $500 million and $600 million for the 141 square mile Pineapple island.

Microsoft has always been known as a software company, but that perception changed on Monday when the company unveiled its first-ever tablet in Los Angeles. Even though Apple popularized the tablet genre with the iPad, Microsoft's Surface tablet will directly compete with the bestselling tablet, as it is slightly thinner, features a bigger screen, and it can also do several things the iPad can't do, such as type well or sit up straight.