money.cnn.com — Quote - "I get about 100 e-mails a day. We apply filtering to keep it to that level—e-mail comes straight to me from anyone I've ever corresponded with, anyone from Microsoft, Intel, HP etc. And I always see a write-up from my assistant of any other e-mail, from companies that aren't on my permission list or individuals I don't know."
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raremageApr 5, 2006
Gates did a comical presentation on the problem of SPAM at one of the internal MSFT events a few years ago and he threw up some really funny samples of the spam he typically got, together with great comments about some of the wonderful offers he had recently received in email. Included were ones about 'Do you want to be debt free?' (comment along the lines of 'Now who wouldn't want that?') and 'reasonably priced legal services' (comment was "Now THAT sounds like something we could use!").Really cracked everyone up. Very funny and clever way to get the message across. 'Course this was maybe 3 or 4 years ago when he made Spam the hot topic of the day, and MSFT was still in the throws of the AntiTrust suit.
scotty1024Apr 5, 2006
They'd did say he only got 100 legitimate emails a day, they saId they limit him to 100 a day.His trick, and it can be yours too: Treo 700w.Just try and push more than 100 emails a day into that sucker. The memory leaks are very effective at limiting your inbox growth rate.
miaowApr 6, 2006
it sounds like the basic plot for "the office".
halbeApr 7, 2006
I thought the same as well. That picture makes him look old and feeble.
beejay54Apr 11, 2006
"Like what? Name one network operating environment that works better with it's respective workstations than Active Directory. Novell? PFFFTTT...."Open Directory. At least 10 times better. Hand over your geek badge.
diggnationdevonApr 13, 2006
Why do you guys have to be so rude? I'll tell you what... When you are more successful then Bill Gates, let me know...
diggnationdevonApr 13, 2006
Yeah, he has several offices I am sure.
jgreene777May 11, 2006
SharePoint Team Services came with our Win 2003 Server and we use it relisously. It is a tremendous boon to our efficiency. We had our server for more than 2 years before we discovered SharePoint and had been through about a dozen different workflows, trying to find something that would work and bring consistency to our work orders and invoicing. QuickBooks was too expensive and clunky, not to mention Windows only. Other project managers were too rigid and didn't suit our needs well enough while other were exactly what we needed but too expensive. SharePoint lets us build and share CUSTOM work orders, calendars, contact databases, conversation/discussion threads and all kinds of stuff. And since the interface is a website, it works on Macs (our Graphic Designers), PCs (our CAD designers and Sales) and Linux (my home pc). I typically don't like Microsoft stuff but they hit the nail on the head with SP. I only wish I had time to dig further into all the things it can do. There is a time-sheet template, an expense report template and dozens of others that are basically already built for a particular purpose, it's just a matter of having the time and discipline to install them and make the rest of my team adapt them. Anyhoo... you can tell I like SharePoint a little bit, eh?
jgreene777May 11, 2006
sharepoint is MUCH more useful than a blog, discussion forum or wiki. the tools you can build with the templates provied by MS are amazing in the flexibilty, versatility and utility. -lity. -lity. -lity. -lity...