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Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker

Interne E-Mail vom 15.01.2003, die das 2000er Microsoft in a nutshell aufzeigt:

I decided to download Moviemake and buy the Digital Plus r pack [sic!] so I went to Microsoft.com. They have a download place so I went there. […] This site is so slow it is unusable.

So after more than an hour of craziness and making my programs list garbage and being scared and seeing that Microsoft.com is a terrible website I haven’t run Moviemaker and I haven’t got the plus package.

The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my mind.

Bill Gates, 2015: “The next outbreak? We’re not ready”

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In 2014, the world avoided a horrific global outbreak of Ebola, thanks to thousands of selfless health workers — plus, frankly, thanks to some very good luck. In hindsight, we know what we should have done better. So, now’s the time, Bill Gates suggests, to put all our good ideas into practice, from scenario planning to vaccine research to health worker training. As he says, „There’s no need to panic … but we need to get going.“

Hier der dieser Tage oft zitierte TED-Talk von Bill Gates, in dem er bereits 2015 vorhersagt, dass die größte Gefahr der nächsten Jahrzehnte ein hochansteckender Virus ist. Da wünscht man sich, Post-Microsoft-Philantropie-Bill wäre „in charge“ gewesen, was die weltweite Vorbeugung angeht…

„But that is just the start of the crap.“

Wie das fscklog berichtet, ist ein interner Mail-Wechsel von Microsoft aus dem Jahr 2003 aufgetaucht, in dem Bill Gates von seiner Erfahrung beim (vergeblichen) Download des Windows Movie Maker berichtet. Und er ist offensichtlich not amused:

I tried scoping to Media stuff. Still no moviemaker. I typed in moviemaker. Nothing. I typed in movie maker. Nothing.
[…]
Then it told me to reboot my machine. Why should I do that? I reboot every night – why should I reboot at that time?
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So I got back up and running and went to Windows Updale again. I forgot why I was in Windows Update at all since all I wanted was to get Moviemaker.
[…]
Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up.
[…]
So after more than an hour of craziness and making my programs list garbage and being scared and seeing that Microsoft.com is a terrible website I haven´t run Moviemaker and I haven’t got the plus package.
[…]
When I really get to use the stuff I am sure I will have more feedback.

Die ganze Mail (PDF) liest sich wie ein das Stand-Up-Programm über den täglichen Kampf mit Windows und steht der IT Crowd eigentlich in nichts nach. Ich bin auf jeden Fall dafür, dass Bill Gates diesem Talent nachgeht, damit wir noch mehr von ihm zu lesen bekommen…