Bill Gates on the Windows Experience
After browsing the web for a little bit today, I stumbled across a something that I think many will find interesting. It is a copy of an e-mail Bill Gates sent out to many of his developers complaining about his frustrating experiences with Windows itself. The e-mail was salvaged from a stack of documents that were exhibit items in an anti-trust lawsuit Microsoft was battling at the time. Here is an excerpt of Bill Gates:
I tried scoping to Media stuff. Still no moviemaker. I typed in movie. Nothing. I typed in movie maker. Nothing.
So I gave up and sent mail to Amir saying - where is this Moviemaker download? Does it exist?
So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated.
They told me to go to the main page search button and type movie maker (not moviemaker!).
I tried that. The site was pathetically slow but after 6 seconds of waiting up it came.
I thought for sure now I would see a button to just go do the download.
In fact it is more like a puzzle that you get to solve. It told me to go to Windows Update and do a bunch of incantations.
You can read the entire text of this e-mail by following this link.