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Mira

(22,380 posts)
Wed Feb 5, 2014, 01:57 PM Feb 2014

Gates Spends Entire First Day Back in Office Trying to Install Windows 8.1 - Borowitz observes



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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aristocles

(594 posts)
3. I have 4 laptops for my business
Wed Feb 5, 2014, 02:11 PM
Feb 2014

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)
7. YOU'RE A FOOL IF YOU DON'T SWITCH TO LINUX RIGHT NOW!!!!1! A FOOL!!!1!!!!!
Wed Feb 5, 2014, 02:25 PM
Feb 2014

That's what I've heard, anyway.

adirondacker

(2,921 posts)
14. Too much fun in the sun. He probably spent most of his younger years in a basement in WA state.
Wed Feb 5, 2014, 03:07 PM
Feb 2014

Now, he more than likely spends a great deal of his time on his yacht and on the beach in various resorts.

tridim

(45,358 posts)
16. The macheads will not see this as satire at all.
Wed Feb 5, 2014, 03:14 PM
Feb 2014

And will become delicious bonus satire themselves as they will inevitably chime in.

Make us proud!

 

quinnox

(20,600 posts)
13. lol. What irony. The founder of microsoft and current CEO are thwarted by windows 8
Wed Feb 5, 2014, 03:02 PM
Feb 2014

and can't install it. Hopefully, Gates said, "you know, maybe we should go back to the basics, who designed this version anyway?"

Berlum

(7,044 posts)
20. Billy, the GMO mutant crap you are also pushing is likewise a freaking FAIL
Wed Feb 5, 2014, 03:31 PM
Feb 2014

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.

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