Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant

[Maratonda]

Take a look at this! LOL!

---- Original Message ----

From: Bill Gates
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:05 AM
To: Jim Allchin
Cc: Chris Jones (WINDOWS); Bharat Shah (NT); Joe Peterson; Will Poole; Brian Valentine; Anoop Gupta (RESEARCH)
Subject: Windows Usability Systematic degradation flame

I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability....

More at http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/141821.asp
The original file is here
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/library/2003Jangatesmoviemaker.pdf

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[Canis familiaris]

If that he though about Windows in 2003, what'll he'll think about Vista?

[lisati]

To quote one of the comments on the website mentioned by the OP, it looks like Bill got bitten by his own monster.

[Maratonda]

sudo apt-get install moviemaker

ummmm...no, didn't work Bill

[kernelhaxor]

LOL can't stop laughing

[samjh]

Ouch.

You gotta worry when your CEO is pissed off at your product.

To be fair, Gates' frustration was levelled at the microsoft.com website, not Windows itself.

[Methuselah]

Funny, Bill Gates sounds like a guy I could almost like. :D

ha ha

That's hilarious.
I like how he seems to get more and more frustrated while typing the email.

[Methuselah]

Ouch.

You gotta worry when your CEO is pissed off at your product.

To be fair, Gates' frustration was levelled at the microsoft.com website, not Windows itself.

No. it's windows alright:



Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The
registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up.


Pretty funny.
But he's supposed to criticize windows.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall when Vista was about to be released.

[Kernel Sanders]

So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated.


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[William Dojinn]

Hey Bill, WELCOME TO THE AVERAGE USER'S EXPERIANCE!

Ahem...sorry.


The question is would chucking balmer to the curb do anything appreciable to increase windows's useability in the future?

[GStubbs43]

I'm confused...

Why would Bill Gates have to buy Moviemaker, actually call tech support like an average user, etc.?

[Maratonda]

I guess he's trying to download moviemaker, and buying some other package of softwares called Digiplus...

I decided to download (Moviemaker) and buy the Digital Plus pack ... so I went to Microsoft.com

[GStubbs43]

I guess he's trying to download moviemaker, and buying some other package of softwares called Digiplus...

well, then.. why buy Digital Plus? :KS

[oedipuss]

So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated.

hahahah :D

Gotta admit though, I like him more after reading this.

[Maratonda]

well, then.. why buy Digital Plus? :KS

Lol, who knows!!

[original_jamingrit]

well, then.. why buy Digital Plus? :KS

He probably couldn't find the torrent for it. ;-)

Man, that rant reminds me of some of the rants on Ubuntu I've seen here, ending in "I'm switching to windows". So, I halfways expected Bill's e-mail to end in "I'm switching to Ubuntu!"

[eragon100]

So, I halfways expected Bill's e-mail to end in "I'm switching to Ubuntu!"

That isn't possible, the mail is from 2003, ubuntu first came out in 2004 :)

[oedipuss]

So, I halfways expected Bill's e-mail to end in "I'm switching to Ubuntu!"

I wonder if he's ever tried ubuntu; personally I mean, not as some kind of competition research..
Or if he's like Ballmer who won't even buy his kids an ipod XD

[cardinals_fan]

I'm confused...

Why would Bill Gates have to buy Moviemaker, actually call tech support like an average user, etc.?
Probably to test out the way "normal people" (ie not billionaires) would do it.

[fatality_uk]

How authentic is this email?

[Maratonda]

It comes from the archive of the trial against Microsoft in the EU for market abuse, I guess, so it be should authentic. At the end of the article, it quotes Gates saying:
As for the message, Gates smiled and said, "There's not a day that I don't send a piece of e-mail ... like that piece of e-mail. That's my job."

[L815]

Can't blame Gates for every mistake with Windows. He does have a workforce that does most if not all the programming :P

[original_jamingrit]

That isn't possible, the mail is from 2003, ubuntu first came out in 2004 :)

Yeah, I know, that's just what it made me think of all the same.

[scouser73]

Now Mr Gates, you know what it feels like to be a "Windows User", it's terrible isn't it? My advice would be to ask those kind people at Canonical for a brand spanking, no nonsense Ubuntu 8.04 disc, also known as Hardy Heron.

Bundled with this disc you'll find Firefox (calm down Bill, it's better than the IE crap you produce), also OpenOffice (Yes Bill, this is decidedly better than Microsoft Office - ANY version!).

Now Bill, here's a bit of advice, stick to sorting your own organisation out before before ranting and raving about open source.