Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsWhile Bill Gates' imminent retirement
from Microsoft is understandably a cause for some quiet moments of
reflection for some, it's also given folks an excuse to dig up some
tidbits from Gates' tenure that have somehow gone unnoticed or
unheralded in the past few years, one of the juiciest of which comes in
the form of a 2003 email that Todd Bishop of the Seattle
Post-Intelligence has thankfully given fresh light. In it, Gates rips
into "how Windows Usability has been going backwards" as he details his
long, arduous attempts to download Moviemaker and buy the then new
Digital Plus pack. While there's far to many gems to include here, a
few of Gates' stand-out observations include how "crazy" it is that it
took six minutes to install "a bunch of controls" before he was able to
install Moviemaker, and his disappointment that he had to reboot his
machine even though he reboots it every night. Eventually, after
(apparently) getting Moviemaker installed, Gates decided to go digging
in the add/remove program options to ensure that it was installed, only
to find it missing, which prompted him to declare that, "someone
decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable," adding that,
"this program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up."
Needless to say, we'd recommend hitting the read link below to check
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