Bill Gates’ House v2.0

Apparently Bill Gates’ house isn’t big enough. According to News.com:

“…some changes are needed to make it more livable. Gates representatives said the home was designed for a bachelor and the family has found that it ‘isn’t fitting as they expected it to’…”

It’s a classic example of why user testing is always necessary. Imagine, he’s been living in a Beta version all this time.

 

32 thoughts on “Bill Gates’ House v2.0

  1. Bill, I think you should ask your kids what they want their house to be like, what they dream of having. Listen to them they might be happy or they might say, this pool looks a bit scary, or we need a reck room, or I want to live a normal life. Now that is something they might say. You are a good man and are probably a good father too, and good fathers listen to their young ones. I bet your home will be better when you ask your kids what it needs. I hope you guys enjoy all the stuff not many kids can have a 50′ TV or a theater in their house or so many bedrooms. Enjoy and tell your kids that they are lucky to have such a nice wonderful father. I hope you guys do a good job making Halo 2 and can you please help Seattle, my step-dad went to collage for computer software and hardware and nobody is excepting him in any kind of job. He’s always talking about someday I’ll work for Microsoft. Just help Seattle, they say you need experience to work here and I understand that, they want to save money. But how are you going to get experience if people won’t hire you. I just want want to end up on the street, we’ve moved 7 times maybe 8, well now it sounds like I’m writting this just to help me but I’m not, I just would like to see Seattle not be the city that has the most unemployed people. I’m just asking for help and I think your a nice guy and I trust and have faith in you. Good luck with your software company and you have a great day.

    Chrisitna Roth
    (206)-723-4269
    3023 S. Portland St.
    Seattle, WA 98108
    Age: 13

  2. don’t worry, your dad will get the job. good luck, god bless.

    p.s: sry, didn’t read ur age and assumed that you were kidding. i apologise.

  3. Hi Bill Gates! I am so happy to be writing because i am very happy i have this opportunity. Please i know you’re a good man so please could you help my Church with 3 million for the project of building a new church? I would also greatly appreciate it if you could also support me with some money, maybe 20 million US dollars just for me. Just joking, but I wish I had that much. I pray and have faith that maybe one day I’ll have that much to make my family happy and our lives successful. it would truly be a dream come true, cause I like shopping around the world but I’ve never went to other countrie’s, only Australia. Please and a laptop for my school studies because my big brother always gets to us the internet at my dads office and i sometimes get my school marks low. I don’t like to make my parent’s get too concerned. Please if it is possible, then send it before the end of August to this address:

    C/- Luke Niap
    PNG Harbours Board
    P.O.Box 671
    Port Moresby

    If it is not possible or too much for you, no hard feelings but I’ll still pray cause i have faith in you and you are the only one i can trust. May God use you and richly bless you all. Bye!

  4. Hi, Bill Gates! am happy writing to you. cos i know you are a very good man , infact my prayer is that God will countinue to bless you and provide for you as long as you care for others. Sir there is this thing that i will like you to do for me . I am a boy of 17 years old and i am a student but due to money problem am not able to continue with my school and also my parents have no money to help me school in the United states of America. Sir i will like you to help me and provide for me in my study there in USA and help me in my Education. Sir i know you are a good man who is always ready to help poor people. i want to school there because of there developed way of educating young ones. So sir i promise to be of good behavour there in the USA. I am a ready to read and study student who have no money to help me achive what i want to achive, so Sir i have all the faith that you will do that for me. Also ,Sir if Incase if you can’t do that for me i will like you to send me 19 millon US dollars that so that i can help myself to provide for my Education here in nigeria. Also i will like you to send me a laptop computer for my studies, and some money to help me connect it to the internet. Sir i know you can do this for me i know that it is a small problem in your sight but i will like you to do it for me .Sir i will like you to send it to me before the middle of this August 2003. If it is possible i prefer to study in the USA. If this is possible kindly send these requset to me with the address
    32a udenweze street,
    New Haven, Enugu, Nigeria.
    With the name CHUKWUKA.E.ONWUKA.
    I hope this is possible , cos i have faith in you . and also because God is really using you to help poor people , i hope you will not pass me by. May God bless you as you grant my request. God bless you. Bye.

  5. why is everyone writing personal stuff to bill gates. i seriously doubt he reads this

  6. I was thinking of removing these odd comments to Bill Gates, but they’re just too interesting. Enjoy them!

  7. So…is God using me to maintain cable TV ratings for Fox Sports World Canada and to test the longevity of 1993 VW Golfs?

  8. Dear Mr. bill Gate,
    please i hope that by the grace of God you are wil and please you care for God work,plase dont be amze of healling from me.Please i am Patrick Amoako calling you attention from Ghana in west West Africa.
    Please i am a christian student of 15 years old and please i have finished my junionr secondray school.please the name of my father is Joseph amoako. he is 45 years old and please the name of my mother is Theresa Adoma, and please i hope and belive in my heart you are christian and you care for our Al-mighty God work.
    Please Mr. Bill Gate the mean reason why i mail you this letter is that my parents were farmers and please through the harmathan season please thier farm burned so please the dont do any work and please now the are old to.
    Please Mr.Bill Gate a time has come for me to start my my seniour secondray school but now my parents are unemproyed and please they dont do any work so please i beg you in the of our all mighty God that please the admistation fees and the books of the senoiour secondray school is cost $500.00 so please i beg you in the of our Al-mighty God that please have mercy for em and please send me this money by western union money transfer in Ghana so that i can recieve it to start my seniour secondray school.please Mr, bill grate you are my last hope in this earht so please i beg you try your best and help me to contiouns my education and please i ahve hope and believe that you will help me.please i end here and God bless you.

  9. Dear Mr. bill Gate,
    please i hope that by the grace of God you are wil and please you care for God work,plase dont be amze of healling from me.Please i am Patrick Amoako calling you attention from Ghana in west West Africa.
    Please i am a christian student of 15 years old and please i have finished my junionr secondray school.please the name of my father is Joseph amoako. he is 45 years old and please the name of my mother is Theresa Adoma, and please i hope and belive in my heart you are christian and you care for our Al-mighty God work.
    Please Mr. Bill Gate the mean reason why i mail you this letter is that my parents were farmers and please through the harmathan season please thier farm burned so please the dont do any work and please now the are old to.
    Please Mr.Bill Gate a time has come for me to start my my seniour secondray school but now my parents are unemproyed and please they dont do any work so please i beg you in the of our all mighty God that please the admistation fees and the books of the senoiour secondray school is cost $500.00 so please i beg you in the of our Al-mighty God that please have mercy for em and please send me this money by western union money transfer in Ghana so that i can recieve it to start my seniour secondray school.please Mr, bill grate you are my last hope in this earht so please i beg you try your best and help me to contiouns my education and please i ahve hope and believe that you will help me.please i end here and God bless you.
    Patrick Amoako
    p.o.box 23024 Adum
    Kumasi Ghana-West-Africa

  10. DEAER BELOVED /SISTER ; Iam mathew from india ineedyour prayer help will you help me by praying for my mummy and daddy and my brother My Mummy is havingKIDDNEYPROBLEM .her KIDDNEY has.bean DAMAGED.because of BLOODPREASUREe.Due to thisDAMAGE my Mummy`S KIDDNEY is not FUNCTIONING PROPLEY.So the UREAandSERUM CREATININE LEVEL in the blood as beanINCREASED up to 71persent and 3.9 persent mg/dl it should be 10persent and 1.3 persent mg/dl know my mummy boddey is full of edmia and the waste prodects likeUREAandSERUM CREATININE are not GOING OUT from my mummy`s boddey so my mummy boddey is SWALLON DUE TO WATER AND WASTE PRODECTS which are not bean going out of my mummy boddey DUE TO DAMAGE IN THE KIDDNEY. SO HUMBLY I REQUEST YOU TO PRAY FOR MY`SDAMAGED KIDDNEY TO RE FUNCTION NORMALY LORD JESUS CAN HEAL MY MUMMY SO I REQUEST YOU TO PRAY FOR MY MUMMY.THIS IS MY THIRD APPROACH TO YOU FOR PRAYER P. MATHEW.

    iam in urgent financial need how much you can help me please help me we are poor we do not have any money for further treatmeant my mummy body is swallon please do help me i beg you dear mr billgates

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  12. Why don’t you all whine about your lives? Please, go ahead and complain some more, as-if it will help.

  13. Steven you are right – these are some of the strangest comments I’ve seen in a long time. Where do all these people come from and how did they end up here???

  14. Where are these posts coming from? I suspect a Google search is being done on “Post a Reply” and that a robot is filling in the form. (Acts of Volition uses a simple form structure — only the name and textfield are required.) I’ll bet that if you add a field that must be filled out intelligently, the posts will disappear…

  15. Dear Mr. Bill Gates,

    I recently purchased Windows 2000.
    However, I could not find any Windows in the box. You said there would be 2000 of them. You also promised they would be micro~soft. I believed they would be small and softly and would fit into my hamsters new home. I bought a microscope and investigated it further.
    No success. All I found was a round plastic disc in which I could see myself. Now my hamster has to sit in the dark.
    Thank you 🙂

    Christian Bogner & the Hamster of darkness

  16. hey bill gates can i have 50 million dollars please. I am 16 and i do not want to work in the future i would like to somehow earn money fast.

    com’on only 50 million its just like 50 cents to you.

    Anderson

  17. Dear Mr. Gates,
    I want to open a hospital a little North of Detroit.
    If you want to help, please contact me.
    It would be the Bill Gates Hospital.
    My regards,
    Patrycja C.,M.D.

  18. Hello Bill I am in the 10th grade at west high school and we had to write a letter to someone we admire and i chose u because your the one that got me to like computers and i was just wondering if i could get your address

  19. Dear William H. Gates, I am a con-man/boy/teen…Whatever anyhoo i would like to rip you off or just take some money from you.you might as well just hand it to me and save me from alot of work. i want 25 cents.Thats right i said 25.i also said/wrote/typed/big mac/typed CENTS.No dollars. i plan to ask michael jackson and tnen curious george bush for a 25 CENT piece later on. P.S -at least im not BS’ing you 😉

  20. Hello.,
    My Name Is Ali Sardar
    Iam 17 Year Old .
    My Qulification is Inter
    My Extra Qulification is
    1. Cit
    2. MsOffice
    3. Visual Basic
    4. Micromedia Flash
    5. Adobe Photo Shop

  21. just mailing to say hello and would want to tell u some few things . pls reply this mailo first
    chiddy

  22. your all stupid geeks with nothing better to do y the fuck would bill gates give u money when hes never met u before. Everybody has problems even Bill himself. Get of ur fat ass and do something about it dont wait for other people to fix YOUR problems. As bad as that sounds its true and no body has a perfect life not even Bill. Its the people who appreciate what they have and work for what they have who can experience a more joyful life

  23. Hello Mr. Bill Gates,

    I am Abhi and would like to apply for the job of error-message writer. I believe you need my kind of a person working for you. I am an expert in the field as I write the most non-error looking messages.

    References: Please ask the Bush Govt. for the messages I wrote for them to cover up the mess they made all over the world. No one even doubts or hints at their mistakes cuz my error messages made them look like angels.

    Sincerely yours,
    Abhi

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  25. My Dear Bill Gates Sir,
    Though I could see in Hyderabad I could not meet U because I am not rich. Only rich people can see U directly. Though U say, you have done very hardwork for reach up to this stage. I wanted to do somthing to the society through free software development classes for which I need some financial aid. Why don’t U help for setting up software development firm, those who can not pay anything. I hope U will under my plans. Please do some needful help.

  26. Dear. Mr. Bill Gates

    Its an honor writing to you, I’d jsut liek to congradulate you with all ur success and hope more success comes your way. I too wish someday to become rich and famous liek you, all I need is the knowledge and good fortunes. Furthermore I doubt You will be reading this, but i have a question for you. Did you ever except to get as big as you are today?

    Thank You

    Juha Shawkat

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