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Oh Canada — not too bad, eh? - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
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"Not bad, eh? I like it." King Julian from Madagascar.
- Mark Dykeman
News flash: Flash websites still suck - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
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Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant - http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microso...
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"I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the program management groups don't drive usability issues. Let me give you my experience from yesterday. I decided to download (Moviemaker) and buy the Digital Plus pack ... so I went to Microsoft.com. They have a download place so I went there. The first 5 times I used the site it timed out while trying to bring up the download page. Then after an 8 second delay I got it to come up. This site is so slow it is unusable. It wasn't in the top 5 so I expanded the other 45..."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
This email nails it. So I wonder, if Bill Gates knew and experience the flaws of his own product in 2003, why no action has been taken to improve it? The Microsoft website is still a mess and Windows is still Windows.
- fbrunel
"I reboot every night," Priceless...
- Christian Sonntag
Christian, I noticed that, too. But it's strange. I never reboot XP, just put it to sleep at night and it works perfectly.
- Sprague D
This is real? I can't believe this is real. This is like every user experience with Windows ever: if the Chairman of the company who makes the software has the problems (and is pissed off about it), and most of the issues he's talking about haven't been fixed after five years, 1) how much power did Gates really wield, and 2) what the hell?
- Mark Trapp
http://www.betterdesktop.org/ - If Bill Gates actually sent mail like that every day, there is no way Windows would work the way it does now. Want some cool insight on usability - check the link out.
- Tim Hoeck
Pwned!
- Ashwin Bharambe
Here's another article about Microsoft executives and their troubles with WIndows: http://www.nytimes.com/2008...
- Gary Burd
I'm sure it's real, this is classic BillG. But getting flamed by the CEO is one thing, actually making a giant complicated mess of an organization and a giant complicated mess of an operating system work in a nice simple way is hard.
- ⓞnor
If he truely sends emails like this every they, then I think they are falling on deaf ears.
- Ryan McCutchen
from twhirl
And Gates should be praised for actually USING his products. Some executives don't.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
I respect Bill Gates a lot more for reading this. Now all they have to do is do something about it.
- Stuart Woodward
@stuart: They did fix some. Try going to microsoft.com and downloading movie maker via downloads. My main annoyance was two pop-ups, one for silverlight and another for a survey. The e-mail is from 5 years ago.
- nadim
I wonder what he thinks of Windows usability in general. I feel it's getting worse.
- Philipp Lenssen
@Stuart Woodward I completely agree with you. I'm a Microsoft solutions architect and my respect for MS has just leapt ten-fold
- Jonathan Nguyen
it is good to know that Gates has similar issues as me... to bad for him he can't ditch MS for Linux or Mac like I did.
- nick carrasco
I'm not entirely sure this email is genuine - but even if it is almost every issue raised has been dealt with... if it was even true in 2003. As someone who uses and supports Linux, OSX and Windows Vista systems both personally and for clients the simple reality is that Vista is a good desktop OS and Server 2008 is a SUPERB server OS.
- Soulhuntre
I am not sure how Linux and OSX have better usability than windows.. not the case for me and a lot of people I know..
- Adriano Gonçalves
@Soulhuntre - It's real. What people don't understand is that it's his *job* (okay it _was_ his job) to send emails like that all day.
- Jordan Hofker
The 10 Commandments of Web Design - http://www.businessweek.com/print...
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