Fortune story on Bill Gates and his interests in software, family and philanthropy. Never miss a story on Gates — there’s always a lot to learn.
Writes Fortune on Longhorn, the forthcoming OS from Microsoft:
Gates’ geeks are completely overhauling the operating system, they’ll also have to redesign most of the company’s other software products and services to take full advantage, including the MSN online service, its server applications, and especially Microsoft Office, the productivity suite that accounts for nearly a third of the company’s sales and profits. If this enormous undertaking succeeds, it will make computers more personal than ever. Equipped with Longhorn, your PC will keep track of how you work, whom you talk to, what sites you look at, how you make documents and whom you share them with, which data on the network are yours–making all those things easier.
