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Your Chance to Meet Bill Gates

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i'd-love-to-interview-him dept.

tcak writes "From the CNET article: "You could meet the chairman of Microsoft, but you'll have to profess a passion for Windows first. Microsoft is looking for true stories about people using Windows computers to pursue a passion or hobby. The company plans to use them in a marketing blitz tied to the 20th anniversary of Windows' debut. ""

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  1. Wonderful by mfh · · Score: 5, Funny

    You could meet the chairman of Microsoft, but you'll have to profess a passion for Windows first.

    How many of us will pretend to love windows just to get a chance to relive some fond memories?

    Microsoft is looking for true stories about people using Windows computers to pursue a passion or hobby.

    So now they have to bribe Windows users for positive reviews, eh? Seems about right.

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    The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
    1. Re:Wonderful by DS_User · · Score: 4, Funny

      Dear Bill; I have idolized you ever sinec I was a child. Now I plan to start my own computer business that will be based on things that already exist. However I will give everything a bloated gui to brainwash noobs into buying. Afterwards our software will turn to OS and then become so huge and bloated that it devours your own. Then I will be the master and you will be no more. Afterwards I will buy the senate and have them force my software to every government facility known to man. I will also send ultra buggy beta versions to Iraq which will destory everything with pure explosions from poor code. Then the US will love me, Britian will knight me, and then, and then. I shall be the emperor of the world. (Your master Sedious would be proud)Such is the way of the Sith.

    2. Re:Wonderful by space_dude_27 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Me. I'll tell them how much fun I have using ace windows software like Firefox and Open Office. And Cygwin ;-)

    3. Re:Wonderful by Speare · · Score: 3, Funny
      Microsoft is looking for true stories about people using Windows computers to pursue a passion or hobby.

      "It was a good paper, too." --Ellen Feiss

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    4. Re:Wonderful by Zog+The+Undeniable · · Score: 4, Funny
      MASTER STALLMAN: Not if anything to do with it I have!

      A protracted light saber fight ensues, at the end of which the defeated MASTER STALLMAN escapes DARTH GEEKIOUS by crawling through a Unix pipe and going into self-imposed exile in the GNU system. There he waits until the New Hope, LINUS PENGUINSTALKER is ready to begin his training in the arts of the VI KNIGHTS.

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      When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
    5. Re:Wonderful by pintomp3 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I love using windows. i have the double paned ones that fold in for easy cleaning. i love to look through them to check the weather, see who's knocking, and bird watching. Windows provide me tons of information and couldn't be easier to use. They are great for security and I never worry about getting bugs inside. They illuminate my otherwise dreary life. I even love using windows in the car. I will never buy a car without windows. Using windows is such a pleasure, more than I can say for my computer running XP.

    6. Re:Wonderful by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 5, Funny

      You have the names mixed up. It's Emperor Bilgatine and Darth Mcbride.

      RMS is the wookie (mostly because he won't need a costume).

  2. my only question is... by whoisshe · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...will they pat me down first before i meet him?

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  3. Re:Apple's Switch by Golias · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why do I get the feeling that this is going to be like Apple's Switch ads?

    That's the whole idea.

    Another Microsoft innovation!

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    Information wants to be anthropomorphized.

  4. I use Windows at work! by Boone^ · · Score: 5, Funny

    When I'm at work, I use a Dell PC running Windows XP to open my VNC sessions on the linux grid to write new simulators as well as check on the progress of currently executing ones, as well as pulling up my VNC terminal from my iMacG5 at home to peruse personal email.

    Do I get to meet Bill now?

  5. Suddenly I feel like David Carradine... by TripMaster+Monkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...Microsoft is offering a number of prizes, including the chance to meet Gates in Seattle...

    Anyone here old enought to remember Death Race 2000? Remember why Frankenstein (David Carradine) wanted so badly to win the race?

    ^_^

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  6. That was awesome! by Nytewynd · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want to win just to pull the old Chris Farley interview from SNL.

    Me: Remember that time you released windows?
    Bill: Yeah
    Me: That was awesome!

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  7. pursue a passion or hobby by bushboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hi There Bill, please consider me !

    I use Windows to persue my hobbies, which include :-

    phishing, spamming, cracking and distributing illegal files via p2p !

    I have a real passion for windows !

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  8. You mean *this* was awesome... by Nick+Driver · · Score: 4, Funny

    Balmer hawking Windows when it was first released.

  9. Don't forget to bring by DrXym · · Score: 4, Funny

    your stake, mallet and holy water.

  10. You fake it by Alien54 · · Score: 3, Funny

    So that at the News Conference in front of all the world media, with Bill at your side, you say, "Actually, I always use [Insert favorite Distro here] for actually doing work."

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    1. Re:You fake it by Jester998 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Microsoft is looking for true stories about people using Windows computers to pursue a passion or hobby. (Emphasis mine)

      I guess they were afraid to ask for stories about people who use Windows in a critical environment. I think I should put an entry in:

      "My passion is screaming at my computer when it blue screens in the middle of a deathmatch. Late-night REGEDIT sessions whenever Windows hoses itself is an amusing hobby too. For everything else, there's FreeBSD."

      Damn, I wish writing all contest entry essays were that easy.

  11. Re:Passion by maxwell+demon · · Score: 4, Funny
    I've never known anyone who is really passionate about windows

    You don't know any passionate Windows hater?
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  12. Re:If a story could ever be marked as Flamebait... by metricmusic · · Score: 4, Funny

    STFU u.

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  13. OOH! OOH! PICK ME! PICK ME!!! by Electric+Eye · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why do I have this vision of Gates dressed as Santa and a line of geeks is waiting to sit on his lap?

    "Hi, um, Bill, er, um, Mr. Gates. I love Windows so much, I have the logo tattoed on my heiny. Want to see it?"

    "What?? That's copyright infringement!! Guards, place this manboy under arrest!!"

  14. Ob. Simpsons... by DarthVain · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks!"

    Bill if your gonna buy reviews, use cash like the the hardware and gaming industries. Stop being a cheapass!

  15. Re:Passion - Gizoogle style by tomhudson · · Score: 4, Funny
    Yo chance ta meet bizzy gates

    you could meet tha chairman of microsoft, but youll have ta profess a passion fo` windows first . Fo'-fo' desert eagle to your motherfuckin' dome. microsoft is look'n fo` true stories `bout thugz using windows baller ta pursue a passion or hobby motha fucka. tha company plans ta use tizzy in a market'n blitz tied ta tha 20th anniversary of windows debut. ta entice essay submissions, microsoft is offer'n a poser of prizes, includ'n tha chance ta mizzle gates in seattle n appear in tha ad campaign. otha prizes include an overseas T-R-to-tha-izzip wit national geographic expedition, vip access ta a major movie premiere n a home makeova wittan hgtv designa.

    Essays mizzle be 300 words or less. Extra points is given ta essays tizzle demonstrate tha positive impact Windows has made on someones life like a tru playa'. Microsoft will select winna in fizzle categizzles ridin' in mah double R: culture n communizzle music, memories, home n lifestizzle n sports n games aww nah. To win, you must be at least 13 years old, live in tha United States, n enta by Siznept puttin tha smack down. 30. Microsoft plans ta select shot calla in Wanna Be Gangsta.
  16. My deep abiding love for Windows by FunWithHeadlines · · Score: 4, Funny
    I have a passion for the color blue. I see it and I swoon in ecstasy. How beautiful it is to my eyes! How evocative of the sky and the sea and everything life-giving!

    I find screens fascinating. Just by looking at a screen, you can learn anything in the realm of human knowledge. There is no limit to the things one can learn by applying yourself to screens.

    When writing, I find the word "of" to be a significant help in stringing together words into coherent sentences. I am so grateful to my elementary school teachers for introducing me to this wonderful word.

    I cannot get the idea of death out of my mind. It haunts me, it consumes me, it puzzles me. I think about it endlessly.

    Is there any wonder why I have a deep and abiding love for Windows?

  17. Ellen Fleiss for Windows by FunWithHeadlines · · Score: 3, Funny
    My Dad has a PC that my sister and I used to use for our homework assignments. One night, I was writing a paper on it, when all of a sudden it went berserk, the screen started flashing, and the whole paper just disappeared. All of it. And it was a good paper! But man, that flashing screen was totally kewl, and made my drugs that much more fun. OK, so I totally got a bad grade for my paper, but it was fine cuz I met this totally great guy who also screwed up his paper.

    Oh yeah, Bill Gates is teh bomb.

  18. First Prize, a meeting with Bill Gates... by jpellino · · Score: 4, Funny

    Second Prize: Two meetings with Bill Gates.

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    "Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
  19. My hobby and passion... by Cyn · · Score: 3, Funny

    is masochism.

    Windows does it for me every time.

    Thank you Windows.

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    cyn, free software and *nix operating systems enthusiast.
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