Bill Gates fails to install Windows 8. Goes back to Windows 7.
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[quote=New Yorker]REDMOND, WASHINGTON ([URL="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/"]The Borowitz Report[/URL])—Bill Gates’s first day at work in the newly created role of technology adviser got off to a rocky start yesterday as the Microsoft founder struggled for hours to install the Windows 8.1 upgrade.
The installation hit a snag early on, sources said, when Mr. Gates repeatedly received an error message informing him that his PC ran into a problem that it could not handle and needed to restart.[/quote]
[url=http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/02/gates-spends-entire-first-day-back-in-office-trying-to-install-windows-81.html]Source (New Yorker)[/url]
Even Bill Gates thinks Windows 7 is better.
Which is a shame because Windows 8.1 is actually pretty good.
For what its worth, I'm typing this on a Macbook Pro running Windows 8.1.
[URL="http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2008/06/24/full-text-an-epic-bill-gates-e-mail-rant/"]So we can expect this e-mail, v 2.0?[/URL] :v:
[quote]After failing to install the upgrade by lunchtime, Mr. Gates summoned the new Microsoft C.E.O. Satya Nadella, who attempted to help him with the installation, but with no success.
While the two men worked behind closed doors, one source described the situation as “tense.”
“Bill is usually a pretty calm guy, so it was weird to hear some of that language coming out of his mouth,” the source said.[/quote]
:v:
He got so frustrated trying to install it he sent for his boss, and both of them got nowhere in the process :v:
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;43810098]:v:
He got so frustrated trying to install it he sent for his boss, and both of them got nowhere in the process :v:[/QUOTE]
Artistic reconstruction:
"Have you tried reboo-"
"Don't you fucking [B]dare[/B], Satya."
[I]silence[/I]
It's weird because most, myself included, didn't run into any problems.
[QUOTE=snookypookums;43810116]Artistic reconstruction:
"Have you tried reboo-"
"Don't you fucking [B]dare[/B], Satya."
[I]silence[/I][/QUOTE]
"B-but, who dares, wins...." - S. Nadella
This is too perfect.
[QUOTE=SeamanStains;43810054]Even Bill Gates thinks Windows 7 is better.[/QUOTE]
Nah, he just had a bizarre issue with installing it. In an AMA a while back he said he preferred 8 to 7.
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;43810098]:v:
He got so frustrated trying to install it he sent for his boss, and both of them got nowhere in the process :v:[/QUOTE]
I imagine a lot of "WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO TO MY OS WHILE I WAS GONE, JESUS FUCKING CHRIST"
[QUOTE=redBadger;43810125]It's weird because most, myself included, didn't run into any problems.[/QUOTE]
How weird not everybody gets a fatal error?
Yikes.
I had the same issue with 8.1 when I installed it. Kept getting BSOD's every 20 minutes and went back to 7. Not had a problem since.
Shame as with ClassicShell it's a really nice OS. Oh well.
[QUOTE=Demache;43810078]Which is a shame because Windows 8.1 is actually pretty good.
For what its worth, I'm typing this on a Macbook Pro running Windows 8.1.[/QUOTE]
I've had nothing but problems when using Windows 8/8.1, such as my wireless connections randomly dropping out and the fact that chrome doesn't even work at all.
Ended up downgrading to Windows 7. only reason I had windows 8 in the first place is because it was already on the laptop when I bought it.
I had expected this to be a The Onion article.
Did they try Binging the problem? :v:
[QUOTE=Warship;43810210]I had expected this to be a The Onion article.[/QUOTE]
It's the Borowitz Report.
Still satire, I'm afraid.
[url]http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/[/url]
[QUOTE=Warship;43810210]Did they try Binging the problem? :v:[/QUOTE]
They Googled it.
Poor Gates.
I've only had 1 issue with Win8 and that was BSOD when rebooting/turning off my computer but that was just old driver issue that was eventually fixed and now I haven't had any issues.
[QUOTE=frankie penis;43810190]I've had nothing but problems when using Windows 8/8.1, such as my wireless connections randomly dropping out and the fact that chrome doesn't even work at all.
Ended up downgrading to Windows 7. only reason I had windows 8 in the first place is because it was already on the laptop when I bought it.[/QUOTE]
Supposedly, there are wireless problems in 8 because they made some changes to the way they work.
I went from 7 -> 8 -> 8.1 in on this Macbook in about 4 hours. Other than the install being painfully slow (jesus christ Windows Update) it works flawlessly. And AFAIK, I didn't install any Windows 8 specific drivers, so there's that.
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