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• Microsoft downplays Bill Gates' pledge to support Xbox division spin-off

  Microsoft has downplayed statements made by Bill Gates, who pledged to support new CEO Satya Nadella if he decided to spin-off the firm’s Xbox division.

• Bill Gates would be okay with spinning off Xbox division should Nadella want to

  Microsoft’s co-founder Bill Gates, said today that should current CEO Satya Nadella want to spin off the Xbox, or Bing divisions, he would absolutely support it.

• Bill Gates does Reddit AMA, world stunned that he prefers Kinect Sports over Halo

  Well not really, that’s a massive slice of hyperbole, but still; if you’re a fan of anything ‘Gates’ you’d do well to check out his recent Reddit AMA for an insight into the man behind the specs.

• Watch Microsoft announce new CEO Satya Nadella

  Microsoft named Steve Ballmer’s successor earlier this week, ushering in Satya Nadella as the company’s new CEO. Watch his unveiling here.

• Microsoft to name new CEO by year's end, sources reveal list of candidates - report

  Microsoft’s search for Steve Ballmer’s eventual replacement is ongoing as you read this. The company is expected to name a new CEO before the year is through, according to a new report.

• Microsoft shareholders rally to force Gates' retirement - report

  Microsoft’s key shareholders are keen to see Bill Gates follow Steve Ballmer into retirement, according to new reports.

• Former Microsoft exec reveals failed Sega acquisition, lack of 'muscle' to blame

  Microsoft wanted to buy Sega at one point, according to former Microsoft exec and this week’s chief bean-spiller Joachim Kempin. Bill Gates clubbed the idea to death after he deemed that Sega lacked ‘muscle’ to help it defeat Sony in the console arms race.

• The Xbox Story, Part 3: Facing the Public

  With the Xbox project finally greenlit, the Microsoft team prepared to show it to the world. Patrick Garratt tells the story of the GDC and CES Bill Gates reveals and why you were nearly playing the “Microsoft 11X”.

• SEGA wanted Dreamcast to be compatible with original Xbox

  Rumors abounding for years state that at one time, Microsoft planned to buy SEGA. Being gamers, most of you have heard this rumor. What you may not have heard, though, was that at one time, SEGA wanted its Dreamcast games to be compatible with the original Xbox.

• Estavillo subpoenas Bill Gates in RROD case

  Lawsuit legend Erik Estavillo – who recently decided to subpoena Winona Ryder and Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore in a WoW case – is now planning to subpoena Bill Gates in a RROD suit he filed earlier this month. The subpoena instructs Gates to bring “documents pertaining to the true and relative number of actual Xbox […]

• Natal: "There's incredible value in the office connected to a Windows PC", says Gates

  Bill Gates has told CNET that Natal’s  not just for Xbox 360 or games only, but for “media consumption as a whole”, which means it can be used with Windows as well. “Both the Xbox guys and the Windows guys latched onto that and now even since they latched onto it the idea of how […]

• Gates: Japanese 360 breakthrough will be online

  According to this Kotaku report, Microsoft’s Bill Gates reckons Xbox 360’s saving grace in Japan will be Live. “Product share varies from country to country,” he said in a Mainichi story. “In the US and the UK, the share [of Xbox 360] is high, but besides Japan, there are other areas we haven’t penetrated. From […]