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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!
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??
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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?
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, does he ever get viruses, the BSOD, spyware, spam, crashes, and driver conflits?
Or does he use a Mac?
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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.
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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Maybe his office is so sparse because Steve Ballmer breaks all his furniture?
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!
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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