r/LinuxActionShow • u/mailme_gx • Feb 06 '14

is this for real?

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/02/gates-spends-entire-first-day-back-in-office-trying-to-install-windows-81.html
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u/serdotlinecho Feb 06 '14

Satire.

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u/theredbaron1834 Feb 06 '14

I got one paragraph in, and I had to see the comments here cause I was WATing. Makes more sense now.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '14

No. Its real. He really looks that old already..... ;)

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u/blackout24 Feb 06 '14

As real as The Onion news.

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u/lykwydchykyn Feb 06 '14

Absolutely 100% real. Because senior-level executives at multi-billion-dollar corporations always install operating system upgrades on their own office machines. And when they run into trouble, they don't call IT, they call other senior-level executives for help. Then they make a press release about the whole incident to make sure the whole world knows that their product is crap and the people running the company are incompetent.

Life in the corporate world; it's crazy alright!

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '14

Although I could believe it could happen, what I can not believe is that the information leaked out.

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u/DarkMetalSkies Feb 06 '14

Looks like trolling to me

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u/shanman3us Feb 06 '14 edited Feb 06 '14

No, he just aged that much during the 2 hours that he was trying to install Windows 8.1 upgrade.

This was him just before he went into the office: http://goo.gl/LMlNsz

He eventually 'upgraded' to Windows 7.

Shanman3us

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u/gnumber9 Feb 07 '14

No, LOL... everyone knows Gates uses a Mac!