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

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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

Source: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...indows-81.html

Is there something wrong when the creator cannot use his own product, yet having based his entire working life around it and sold it to countless others to make him the wealthiest person on the planet?

[Tymichael]

The Borowitz Report is satire, FYI.

That being said, I prefer Windows 7.

[Smeeh]

"Oh i cant install windows? better call the fucking CEO of the company for help LOL!"

I get he's Bill Gates and all, but come on.

[KonkeroaR]

Note the "KEYWORDS HUMOR" at the bottom of the article.

[Garnier Fructis]

If you didn't realize it was satire by the third paragraph I think something is wrong.

[tiporispit]

Satire. However, it begs the question: If you can't install and navigate Windows 8, does your family have a recessive Down Syndrome gene?

[lockedout]

Source: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...indows-81.html

Is there something wrong when the creator cannot use his own product, yet having based his entire working life around it and sold it to countless others to make him the wealthiest person on the planet?

It's satire, guess you got fooled, lol.
That being said I don't think Bill Gates had anything to do with the development of windows 8, I could be wrong just a guess.

[Eldar45]

Satire. However, it begs the question: If you can't install and navigate Windows 8, does your family have a recessive Down Syndrome gene?

Down's Syndrome is more of a physical deformation than mental disability. Though most children with Down's have some sort of mental disability, it mostly effects growth and motor functions.

And downs syndrome is not inherited, it is caused by an error in cell division

And Windows 8 isn't exactly hard to navigate, but its annoying to navigate will a lot of bloat but no substance. It was much better like it was.

[Reeve]

Down's Syndrome is more of a physical deformation than mental disability. Though most children with Down's have some sort of mental disability, it mostly effects growth and motor functions.

And downs syndrome is not inherited, it is caused by an error in cell division

And Windows 8 isn't exactly hard to navigate, but its annoying to navigate will a lot of bloat but no substance. It was much better like it was.

Now that I've gotten used to Windows 8, I actually prefer it to Windows 7. Once you customize it the way you like it it's actually really nice.

[Noomz]

Source: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...indows-81.html

Is there something wrong when the creator cannot use his own product, yet having based his entire working life around it and sold it to countless others to make him the wealthiest person on the planet?

It's a satire article. It's a joke.

[Belize]

Now that I've gotten used to Windows 8, I actually prefer it to Windows 7. Once you customize it the way you like it it's actually really nice.

Heresy! Your mobile friendly layouts have no place on our glorious PCs! Windows XP is still the best by far and I don't understand why anyone would want to upgrade!

[Reeve]

Heresy! Your mobile friendly layouts have no place on our glorious PCs! Windows XP is still the best by far and I don't understand why anyone would want to upgrade!

Oh god, I hate XP. I basically skipped that whole generation of Windows because Mac OS X was just so much better than XP. It's only with Windows 7 that Microsoft caught up.