How Bill Gates Works 424
ZZeta writes "What's a day like for the richest man on Earth? In this Fortune interview, Bill Gates explains what he does on his average workday. Most interesting? He is not into some of Outlook's features, such as to-do lists and email notification. Also, he works with three monitors and is looking forward to buying a digital whiteboard next year."
I was interested in how he gets his e-mail filtered. Hey Bill, if you read this, I'll totally put you on my e-mail whitelist!
Failures (Score:1, Funny)
But I bet one thing though - when his hard drive fails, or some software goes wrong - he can get someone from IT to fix it straight away.
HSW (Score:5, Funny)
Interesting.
I Guess,How stuff Works should include how such " stuff " works too .
How does he work? With 3 Screens! (Score:5, Funny)
Hey Bill, change your desktop wallpaper, it is looking a bit dated. And wash your hair.
He says he only gets 100 emails a day, surely we can send him some more to billg@microsoft.com ?
And Bill, where is your XBOX 360??
TFA (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, like that's really changed? See something good and copy it!
Re:HSW (Score:5, Funny)
Shady guy (Score:5, Funny)
Obligatory Simpsons Reference (Score:2, Funny)
Schematics? (Score:2, Funny)
Desktop search (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder what he uses...*cough*GDS*cough*
Re:Is he watching? (Score:5, Funny)
Well I've now RTFA and it is, to put it mildly, "content-light". He sorts his email rather than using a to-do list, and he's saving up for a digital whiteboard. This merits an article? I've written more involved blog posts about train journeys to work (no, seriously). Such is the privilege of being the richest rogue^Wentrepreneur in the world.
His desk also looks a bit unreal though. A potted plant and three flatscreens is all that he amounts to. Are you sure that picture wasn't taken in Ikea?
Re:How does he work? With 3 Screens! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Is he watching? (Score:5, Funny)
Saving up for a digital whiteboard. Right.
This is Bill Gates we're talking about. Obviously you mean a digital whiteboard company.
That is his background picture. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Desktop (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Failures (Score:5, Funny)
Or does he use a Mac?
Next year (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Failures (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Desktop (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Technology Hasn't Been Up To Snuff (Score:2, Funny)
For the amount of money that Bill has at his disposal, he could just hire Bob Ross [wikipedia.org] to generate his presentations on the fly. ^_^
Re:HSW (Score:2, Funny)
Aren't you forgetting the borg parts of him (just look at the picture at the top of Slashdot)? Those would be the parts that don't work like the rest of us.
Re:Why isn't Bill Reading Slashdot? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:HSW (Score:5, Funny)
No heart? That figures.
Does anyone really believe this article? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The Technology Hasn't Been Up To Snuff (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sure Gates can afford it. Summoning the undead is essentially free.
Maintenance (roll-on antiperspirant, fresh changes of embalming fluid, regular sacrifices to the unspeakable powers of darkness) is a bit of a financial drag. But I think in the "unspeakable powers" category, Gates gets an employee discount.
Re:Is he watching? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Desktop (Score:5, Funny)
The Administrator probably never gave him enough privelages for that.
Re:Desktop (Score:1, Funny)
His day to day meglomaniac office has a desk carved from a single diamond, and his real desktop scrolls the names and addresses of every person using a pirated M$ product.
Re:The Technology Hasn't Been Up To Snuff (Score:2, Funny)
So that is the truth behind Steve Ballmer's Monkey Dance?
Re:Is he watching? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Technology Hasn't Been Up To Snuff (Score:3, Funny)
For the kind of money Bill has, he could regenerate Bob Ross just to unzip his fly.
-Eric
Re:Is he watching? (Score:5, Funny)
8:30 Arrive at Microsoft
8:32 Find penny in parking lot. Pick it up.
8:37 Open my office door. Add penny to the "Digital Whiteboard Fund" jar on my desk. I've got about $100 in there now, and am hoping to
have enough to get one by next year.
8:39 Look at my 3 monitor setup and chuckle about the rest of the world running Windows(TM) on their little 15" flat panel. Peasants.
9:15 Write up advert^H^H^H^H^Hrticle about my typical day, making sure to plug as many Microsoft(TM) products as possible.
9:30 Email advert^H^H^H^H^Hrticle (DAMMIT, did it again) to Fortune Magazine. Fortune *chuckle*
9:35 Profit!
Rich Nigerians... (Score:2, Funny)
Bill actually used to have a whiteboard (Score:1, Funny)
Bill now has to wait until Steve finishes therapy.
How Bill Gates Really Works (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Is he watching? (Score:5, Funny)
I think you forgot every second from 0:00:00 to 23:59:59.
00:00:00 Profit !
00:00:01 PROFIT !
00:00:02 Pr0f17 !!!!
23:59:57 ProFIT !!
23:59:58 pRoFiT !!!!!
23:59:59 profit
Re:How he gets his email filtered (Score:3, Funny)
Or his wife!
Re:huh? (Score:3, Funny)
RE: A few thoughts... (Score:2, Funny)
"Ahh! I entered the wrong input and tried to erase it and it went nuts!!11^H^H^H^H"
"... oh yeah, you have to not make a mistake on that part"
Re:Shady guy (Score:3, Funny)
The windows are fine, it's the vista that's bothersome.
Re:Desktop (Score:2, Funny)
I use XP background on my SuSE just to keep my boss happy... I'm sure Bill is doing the same to keep Steve happy...