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For Steven Sinofsky, the stern but creative engineering manager who runs Microsoft Corp's flagship Windows division, February 29 is showtime.

For Steven Sinofsky, the stern but creative engineering manager who runs Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) flagship Windows division, February 29 is showtime. Sinofsky will preside over the public test release of the Windows 8 operating system, his biggest test.

A source revealed some of the 231 names that have been submitted for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, according to the Associated Press.

Warren Buffett, the head of U.S. investment company Berkshire Hathaway, said the firm had chosen his successor but did not identify the person.

Visionary Steve Jobs would have celebrated his 57th birthday Friday. The legendary Apple co-founder and innovator passed away on Oct. 5, 2011 after a long and public battle with disease. He was 56. In commemoration of what would have been his 57th birthday, we honor the legendary Jobs with ten funny and inspirational quotes he said throughout his life.

In November 2011, Rupert Murdoch's tablet-only digital magazine The Daily discovered that Microsoft was planning to build a version of Microsoft Office for the iPad. On Tuesday, sources tell The Daily that the Microsoft Office app will soon be submitted to Apple for approval in its App Store.

Steve Jobs pushed an entire industry to think different. After passing away late last year, Jobs left an impression among many across the world as an innovator, rebel and entrepreneur. While Apple still maintains a cult-like status, many remained fixated on the lessons that can be learned from iconic founder Steve Jobs. For those who have finished the book, but still crave more from the fabled story of Jobs, Scott Hurff has put together The Ultimate Steve Jobs Collection.

Like many other sectors, the U.S. IT jobs market has been threatened by armies of smart, skilled and English-speaking professionals from emerging market countries like India, Pakistan and Russia.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates opened a new $15 million visitor center at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Seattle campus Feb. 4, and now that construction is finished, the software titan can focus on his foundation's goals. That means helping people all over the world gain access to medicine and immunizations, helping small farmers in Africa and, of course, improving access to technology.

Craig Silverstein, the first employee at Google after co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, will leave the search giant for Khan Academy, an online education portal based in Mountain View, Calif.

Canadian researchers from the University of Western Ontario claim they have developed a promising HIV vaccine, which has received the green light by U.S. FDA officials to begin testing the vaccine on humans.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg may have set the record for being the youngest billionaire, but the company’s IPO might also put him in the books for paying the highest taxes. Since the 27- year- old entrepreneur plans to exercise stock options worth billions, his tax bill could reach as high as $2 billion.

Singer Bono is set to make almost $1 billion in profit when Facebook goes public later this year, it emerged today. Wednesday's $5 billion dollar Facebook IPO is set to make thousands of stock holders a fortune, including the U2 front man who, through his investment vehicle Elevation Partners, bought a one percent stake in the social network for $90 million in 2009.

Assuming the $100 billion initial public offering by Facebook proceeds as planned, investors will likely clamor for shares and snap them up, just as in earlier Web frenzies for Netscape Communications, Yahoo and Google. But there are dangers.

He may have derided Android devices in real life but in the afterlife Apple Inc founder Steve Jobs is glad he can use one -- or at least that's the story a Jobs look-alike tells in a recent TV commercial for a Taiwanese electronics company's new product.

Francois Hollande, the likely Socialist Party candidate in France's presidential elections, was hit in the face by flour during a speech in Paris on Wednesday. He joins a list of other great leaders who have been the victim of political pranks

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced Monday that his charitable foundation will contribute $363 million over the next five years to the fight to stop neglected tropical diseases worldwide.

The world's major pharmaceutical companies joined forces with governments and leading global health organizations Monday to donate drugs and scientific know-how to help control or wipe out 10 neglected tropical diseases by 2020.

Facebook Inc., the world's largest social networking site, is getting closer to its initial public offering this week as the company is reportedly planning to file papers with the U.S. financial watchdog on Wednesday. Speculation is rife that the social media giant is aiming to raise about $10 billion, which would value the company at between $75 billion and $100 billion.

Apple announced its most profitable quarter ever on Tuesday, but now that the bar is set so high, all eyes will be on the next iPad and iPhone to carry the company's success through the year.

Microsoft chairman and philanthropist Bill Gates pledged a further $750 million to the troubled global AIDS fund on Thursday and urged governments to continue their support to save lives.