We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May.

Here’s Part 5 of 6 of our discussion with Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer, who were interviewed together by Walt Mossberg and me on the conference’s opening night.

In this video, Gates and Ballmer talk about Apple and the mobile market and also answers questions from AllThingsD readers sent via the Internet about health care and whether Microsoft’s hostile bid for Yahoo has tarnished its reputation.

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We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May.

Here’s Part 4 of 6 of our discussion with Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer, who were interviewed together by Walt Mossberg and me on the conference’s opening night.

In this video, Gates and Ballmer talk more about Windows Vista and we get a preview of Windows 7, the first time the next version of the powerful operating system has been shown.

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We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May.

Here’s Part 3 of 6 of our discussion with Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer, who were interviewed together by Walt Mossberg and me on the conference’s opening night.

In this video, Gates and Ballmer talk about their strategy for online advertising, Google and Microsoft’s efforts to take over Yahoo, including Ballmer doodling on a white board as Gates look on.

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We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May.

Here’s Part 2 of 6 of our discussion with Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer, who were interviewed together by Walt Mossberg and me on the conference’s opening night.

In this video, Gates and Ballmer talk about their roles in building Microsoft into a global tech powerhouse together.

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We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May.

Here’s Part 1 of 6 of our discussion with Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer, who were interviewed together by Walt Mossberg and me on the conference’s opening night.

In this video, tech’s most enduring and successful duo talk about how they met cute in college and about the software giant’s dicey early days (old stories that will tell you a lot about why Microsoft is reluctant to pay too much for Yahoo).

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Starting Tuesday this week, all the major players in the Yahoo-Microsoft-Everyone-And-Their-Mother circus will line their private jets up in Sun Valley for the high-powered 26th annual Allen & Co. confab of tech and media moguls.

That would be Microsoft, Yahoo, News Corp., Time Warner (which owns AOL), as well as Google.

It could be like that five families sitdown in the “Godfather” movies, except none of the parties can even seem to metaphorically whack each other, as the Yahoo saga drags on interminably.

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Oh the sweet irony of Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg getting awarded a big round glass object, suitable for mantel-showing-off, from Harvard types.

Especially since he is now the school’s second most famous tech mogul dropout–after Microsoft’s Bill Gates.

But that was the case last night at the San Francisco Airport Hyatt Regency, where the 24-year-old Zuckerberg collected the 30th Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award from the Harvard Business School Association of Northern California.

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Look, it might be the biggest poker bluff in history and analysts are once again chattering that Yahoo’s ad outsourcing deal with Google might force Microsoft back to make another offer for the Internet portal.

Sorry to be the skunk at Carl Icahn’s garden party, but BoomTown doesn’t think so.

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The Wall Street Journal published a special tab about our sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place live two weeks ago.

The Journal editors selected about half of the interviews done there by Walt Mossberg and me, either separately or together, and edited the longer transcripts down to the parts they thought readers would like best.

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While Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer and Yahoo’s CEO Jerry Yang hemmed and hawed about what had happened in their disastrous takeover battle that ended not with a bang, but a whimper, everyone else who appeared onstage at the sixth D: All Things Digital conference last week was a bit more definitive about what should occur now:

Get it done.

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Here’s my annual video, second of two, of the behind-the-scenes preparations for the sixth D: All Things Digital conference.

It starts tonight in Carlsbad, Calif., with an interview with Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer by Walt Mossberg and me.

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Here’s my annual video, first of two, of the behind-the-scenes preparations for the sixth D: All Things Digital conference.

It all starts tonight in Carlsbad, Calif., with an interview with Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer by Walt Mossberg and me.

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Sure, Microsoft and Yahoo are talking this weekend about some deal that makes all parties happy.

But make no mistake: It is Yahoo pushing the one-price-buys-all idea, while it is Microsoft that would still prefer to buy just some of Yahoo’s assets, specifically its search and search-ad business.

Why? Look no further than Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, who has been relatively silent as this whole takeover circus has unfurled over the last several months.

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Look, we’ve been delivering the goods for weeks now in terms of news, so BoomTown is taking the day off at the beach today (here’s my exact location right now) to get ready for our upcoming sixth D: All Things Digital conference.

That starts Tuesday night when Walt Mossberg and I interview Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer live onstage.

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BoomTown loves this mashup using the popular YouTube music/dance video of the treadmill dance of OK Go, singing “Here It Goes Again,” which was a viral hit in 2006, but superimposing the heads with the major players in the MicroHoo takeover circus.

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