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How Bill Gates Works
ZZeta writes "What's a day like for the richest man on Earth? In this Fortune interview, Bill Gates explains what he does on his average workday. Most interesting? He is not into some of Outlook's features, such as to-do lists and email notification. Also, he works with three monitors and is looking forward to buying a digital whiteboard next year."
I was interested in how he gets his e-mail filtered. Hey Bill, if you read this, I'll totally put you on my e-mail whitelist!
Why should we listen to him - what has he ever achieved? (grumbling) OK, I suppose he has done fairly well for himself....
But I bet one thing though - when his hard drive fails, or some software goes wrong - he can get someone from IT to fix it straight away.
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Interesting.
I Guess,How stuff Works should include how such " stuff " works too .
Why does yahoo do this
...err I mean Windows!
Hey Bill, change your desktop wallpaper, it is looking a bit dated. And wash your hair.
He says he only gets 100 emails a day, surely we can send him some more to billg@microsoft.com ?
And Bill, where is your XBOX 360??
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
Today, if there's something up there that's brilliant, I just get out my pen and my Tablet PC and recreate it.
Wow, like that's really changed? See something good and copy it!
Common sense is not so common
Interesting to see him using venetian blinds -- doesn't he like Windows?
He didn't get rich by writing a lot of cheques...
I was expecting some sort of poorly commented code
I wonder what he uses...*cough*GDS*cough*
Government's idea of a balanced budget: take money from the right pocket to balance...oh who am I kidding?
Well I've now RTFA and it is, to put it mildly, "content-light". He sorts his email rather than using a to-do list, and he's saving up for a digital whiteboard. This merits an article? I've written more involved blog posts about train journeys to work (no, seriously). Such is the privilege of being the richest rogue^Wentrepreneur in the world.
His desk also looks a bit unreal though. A potted plant and three flatscreens is all that he amounts to. Are you sure that picture wasn't taken in Ikea?
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Saving up for a digital whiteboard. Right.
This is Bill Gates we're talking about. Obviously you mean a digital whiteboard company.
And probably why it is everyone else's default.
That looks like a studio version of a generic office except for the side by side trio of monitors on the desk. I'll bet they didn't want to show his real office with the big golden throne and all the other good stuff...
"Also, he works with three monitors and is looking forward to buying a digital whiteboard next year" - why next year? is he saving up for it?
1) His (windows) desktop uses the default XP background. Odd that the world's richest man doesn't change his background picture. He probably *did* change his desktop to match his personal preferences. He just changed it on all the computers on the entire world.
For the amount of money that Bill has at his disposal, he could just hire Bob Ross to generate his presentations on the fly. ^_^
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if you do, then you should have sucker stamped permanently across yr forehead. This is an advert for SharePoint and the tablet pc. Period. In the pictures, BG even looks like the typically gormless boss forced to advertise their own products. That they have sunk this low...
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I'm sure Gates can afford it. Summoning the undead is essentially free.
Maintenance (roll-on antiperspirant, fresh changes of embalming fluid, regular sacrifices to the unspeakable powers of darkness) is a bit of a financial drag. But I think in the "unspeakable powers" category, Gates gets an employee discount.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
Does he use Dance-Dance-Revolution to sort email or to just remove spam?
if you steal from one source, that is plagiarism, if you steal from many, well, that's just research.
1) His (windows) desktop uses the default XP background. Odd that the world's richest man doesn't change his background picture.
The Administrator probably never gave him enough privelages for that.
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That office is his "interview office".
His day to day meglomaniac office has a desk carved from a single diamond, and his real desktop scrolls the names and addresses of every person using a pirated M$ product.
So that is the truth behind Steve Ballmer's Monkey Dance?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Maybe his office is so sparse because Steve Ballmer breaks all his furniture?
For the kind of money Bill has, he could regenerate Bob Ross just to unzip his fly.
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SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Article summary:
.... how apropos!
8:30 Arrive at Microsoft
8:32 Find penny in parking lot. Pick it up.
8:37 Open my office door. Add penny to the "Digital Whiteboard Fund" jar on my desk. I've got about $100 in there now, and am hoping to
have enough to get one by next year.
8:39 Look at my 3 monitor setup and chuckle about the rest of the world running Windows(TM) on their little 15" flat panel. Peasants.
9:15 Write up advert^H^H^H^H^Hrticle about my typical day, making sure to plug as many Microsoft(TM) products as possible.
9:30 Email advert^H^H^H^H^Hrticle (DAMMIT, did it again) to Fortune Magazine. Fortune *chuckle*
9:35 Profit!
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
I'm guessing there was a wave of newly rich Nigerians just before his email filtering team was put in place. Ballmer is probably still patiently waiting on his bequethals, lottery winnings and fees for helping rich politicians flee their countries-Can't pass these up because the return is much better than hustling software!
I can see that many of you are confused as to Bill's lack of a spanking new digital whiteboard - unfortunately due to an incident recently a Fucking Chair(TM) ended up through the whiteboard which is now Fucking Buried(TM) outside under the very apple tree that Newton was sitting under when he discovered that he'd done it before and was going to do it again.
Bill now has to wait until Steve finishes therapy.
1- Make sure no one is looking. 2- Boot "alternate OS" to desktop Linux. 3- Run Open Source apps such as Firefox, OO.org. 4- Take detailed notes on how to... ahem... "borrow" features from these apps. 5- Get Ballmer on the phone and order him to get cranking implementing these "innovative" features that he just came up with. 6- Reboot back into Windows XP. 7- Profit!!!
I think you forgot every second from 0:00:00 to 23:59:59.
00:00:00 Profit !
00:00:01 PROFIT !
00:00:02 Pr0f17 !!!!
23:59:57 ProFIT !!
23:59:58 pRoFiT !!!!!
23:59:59 profit
Or his wife!
I could not justify my existence if I were a turkey farmer. Would I terminate myself? Undoubtably, yes.
That was a mini-VAX, not a dorm fridge!
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
Well, I sure know when I write a program that is buggy to all hell, I never have any problems using it.
"Ahh! I entered the wrong input and tried to erase it and it went nuts!!11^H^H^H^H"
"... oh yeah, you have to not make a mistake on that part"
"I'm sure he minimized his windows so everyone could see he was running WindowsXP."
I use XP background on my SuSE just to keep my boss happy... I'm sure Bill is doing the same to keep Steve happy...