Bill Gates attempts to download MovieMaker, fails, and writes a glorious email:
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.
Here’s what I don’t get. I’m fairly certain that if Steve Jobs went to download iTunes, and couldn’t, the entire Apple web team would be replaced in about two days and would get
Bill Gates, the richest man on earth, a guy who founded arguably the most powerful technology company we’ve yet seen, can’t figure out how to download his own company’s software and this is what happens:
When we were concluding our interview last week, I showed Gates a printout of the e-mail and asked if he ever got Movie Maker to work. Gates noted that Microsoft plans to include Movie Maker as part of Windows Live, so people will get the program when they download that online package.
Bill Gates gets the same answer we all get; “It’ll be fixed in the next version.”