The model built by Bill Gates and Paul Allen remains decades later. What’s changed is how Microsoft responds to a flop.

Google's Demis Hassabis and Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman first met in London when the latter was still at school. Suleyman, the son of a taxi driver, and Hassabis, a chess child prodigy ...

some could argue companies as big and successful as Apple or Google could never emerge, he said. The other view is that ...

Google is alleging Microsoft has created ... it would be one of the largest acquisitions in gaming history. Microsoft has appealed the ruling.

The other view is that Microsoft got off light, he said. And knowing all of this history still makes it hard to predict what might happen in the Google case. "It's hard to know what's gonna happen ...