[HAL9000]

In his candid writings, Bill Gates states the obvious: Windows is barely usable.

[mgstarr]

Windows is barely usable.

But it does keep a lot of people employed trying to service this poorly designed platform.

[Moose4]

Best comment at the P-I blog:

“Someone should tell Billy you can DL it directly from piratebay.org :)”

}:-)4

[rivercat]

to illustrate perfectly why Mac users have such disdain for the "Windows experience."

Purchasing Macs is/was a metrosexual, hippie, anti-establishment fad that is/was funded by the large amounts of home equity that people have been throwing around. Windows bashing goes hand-in-hand with the Bush-bashing that's been going on for the past eight years. Same crowd.

[snarks_when_bored]

To be fair, it does seem that Gates is mostly complaining about the Microsoft website and the way it’s set up to interact (or NOT interact!) with Windows...

[boogerbear]

Most of those problems aren’t Windows, they’re MS’s website, which has been crap since day one.

[Westlander]

[Straight Vermonter]

My son DLed a “critical update” to his vista laptop this week. Now he gets no internet connection. Gotta love windows.

[3AngelaD]

This is great, for so many reasons, one of which you know, HAL. Anyway, instant karma downloads on Bill Gates.

[BRK]

If Bill Gates had trouble installing Movie Maker, then he might be better off with a MAC. People who are so easily confused should keep it simple.

[martin_fierro]

I read somewhere that Ballmer’s frustration with removing spyware from a friend’s PC was one of the prime motivators behind Windows Defender.

[Fundamentally Fair]

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.

Bill Gates "buys" stuff from Microsoft? He goes to Microsoft.com to do that? He refers to Microsoft as "they"?

I find that strange.

[antiRepublicrat]

So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated.

?????!

Nice to see that Bill Gates is still checking up on the people though. From what I've heard his management style was harsh, but effective. He had no problem coming down hard on top execs if even a low-position person made a good case against the status-quo. I have one specific case of that.

[Age of Reason]

Instead of donating all that money to help third world nations, Gates should donate it to the American people whose quality of life and mental health has suffered from the farce that is Windows.

[Little Ray]

Windows Vista is barely usable. XP, on the other, is pretty good and has behaved pretty well for me. So was Windows 2000, NT 4.0, and Windows 95.

[556x45]

LOL...couldnt have happened to a ‘nicer’ guy. Im surprised hes making such a fuss though. Seems he’s never tried using any of the internal web sites for various DLs. They’re far worse!!!! In fact hideous is the word that comes to mind. Then again not sure why he’s even interested as so many just mindlessly continue using MSs half baked products.

[Brainhose]

Don't fret, they're working on a new OS and all will be heaven from that point on(Only kidding folks).
Maybe they'll get the last of the Windows 1.0 code and all the other crap up through Vista.
Don't start holding your breath.

[RightWhale]

Two days to retirement. Will Bill Gates use anything related to Windows after he walks out of his office for the last time? He might not use any digital thing bigger than a cellphone. He wouldn’t need a computer or Internet at all, get right down to it.

[Southack]

"In his candid writings, Bill Gates states the obvious: Windows is barely usable."

Thinking that would miss what was unsaid...Gates had to bypass MS Customer Service to send that email directly to the relevant team leaders.

[Tunehead54]

Reply later ... have to reboot ;-)