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REDMOND, WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)Bill Gates first day at work in the newly created role of technology adviser got off to a rocky start yesterday as the Microsoft founder struggled for hours to install the Windows 8.1 upgrade.
The installation hit a snag early on, sources said, when Mr. Gates repeatedly received an error message informing him that his PC ran into a problem that it could not handle and needed to restart.
After failing to install the upgrade by lunchtime, Mr. Gates summoned the new Microsoft C.E.O. Satya Nadella, who attempted to help him with the installation, but with no success.
While the two men worked behind closed doors, one source described the situation as tense.
Bill is usually a pretty calm guy, so it was weird to hear some of that language coming out of his mouth, the source said.
A Microsoft spokesman said only that Mr. Gates first day in his new job had been a learning experience and that, for the immediate future, he would go back to running Windows 7.
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Orrex
(63,219 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)I'm sure XP can do everything he needs.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)I damn sure still do.
tridim
(45,358 posts)Any amount.
aristocles
(594 posts)Two run XP, two run Windows 7. In both instances I've encountered very few problems.
I've been using computers since 1970, so I tend not to be a dedicated follower of fashion. If I lose time tending to OS problems, I lose money.
Orrex
(63,219 posts)That's what I've heard, anyway.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)It's a great OS, no doubt. Just not for me.
longship
(40,416 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)1000words
(7,051 posts)Gates has not aged well.
aristocles
(594 posts)RC
(25,592 posts)adirondacker
(2,921 posts)Now, he more than likely spends a great deal of his time on his yacht and on the beach in various resorts.
Gothmog
(145,481 posts)Andy Borowitz is always amusing and on point
tridim
(45,358 posts)And will become delicious bonus satire themselves as they will inevitably chime in.
Make us proud!
quinnox
(20,600 posts)and can't install it. Hopefully, Gates said, "you know, maybe we should go back to the basics, who designed this version anyway?"
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)"Someody get me a twelve year old."
Mira
(22,380 posts)eight year old can also do it just fine.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Berlum
(7,044 posts)But while Windows FAIL just frustrates people, the GMO mutant seeds and food-like crap you are pimping make the land, the animals, the insects and the people sick.
Wake up and smell the pernicious crap you have created.
Walk away
(9,494 posts)Although it looks pretty. Why don't I just buy a Mac?