During the 2004 World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Bill Gates, then Microsoft's chief software architect, predicted the end of email spam within two years through several potential means. Two of ...

And in 2004, Gates gave us this doozy in a BBC interview: "[E-mail] spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time." 12 years later, that, uh, didn't happen. Security company Symantec says ...