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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen died yesterday at age 65. His cause of death was Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, the same disease that nearly killed him back in 1983. Allen, who was every bit as important...

https://www.cringely.com/2018/10/16/remembering-paul-allen/

Sorry for again having taken too long to return to work. Or in this case the better term might be to recover.  Eye surgery on November 2nd did not go well so I am still blind. In fact blinder th...

https://www.cringely.com/2017/11/17/15468/

The title above is a play on the famous Bill Gates memo, The Internet Tidal Wave, written in May, 1995. Gates, on one of his reading weeks, realized that the Internet was the future of IT and Mic...

https://www.cringely.com/2017/05/04/cloud-computing-tidal-wave/

It’s funny how a career can turn on a dime. Mine certainly did back in the late 90s when Hollywood flirted with me for a moment. My book Accidental Empires, which was the basis of my PBS serie...

https://www.cringely.com/2017/02/20/remember-pirates-silicon-valley/

Bill Gates is a blogger, did you know that? His blog is called Gates Notes and generally covers areas of interest not only to Bill but also to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which means t...

https://www.cringely.com/2016/06/10/bill-gates-knows-about-raising-chickens/