Bill's last day

It was Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft on Friday. We (half) considered wearing black armbands to commemorate the event.

The Microsoft home page was almost entirely taken over by the advertisement of a Bill-retrospective.

If you clicked through to watch the videos, then you were taken to an "Install Microsoft Silverlight" page - a nice final touch I thought. Proves that I still haven't installed Silverlight yet.

Amongst all of the press around the event my favourite has to be an article by Todd Bishop, who reproduced the full text of an email from Bill Gates entitled Windows Usability Systematic degradation flame - it is well worth reading.

My message to Bill,

"So long and thanks for Microsoft Excel - OneNote is pretty good too."

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Disclosure: I used to work at Microsoft Research.