https://omid.dev/tags/bill-gates/Recent content in Bill Gates on Omid Farhanghttps://omid.dev/images/bio-photo-150x150.jpghttps://omid.dev/images/bio-photo-150x150.jpgHugo -- 0.161.1en-US2026 Omid Farhang | All rights reserved.Fri, 07 Feb 2014 23:53:22 +0000https://omid.dev/2014/02/07/gates-spends-entire-first-day-back-office-trying-install-windows-8-1/Fri, 07 Feb 2014 23:53:22 +0000https://omid.dev/2014/02/07/gates-spends-entire-first-day-back-office-trying-install-windows-8-1/<p><a href="https://omid.dev/images/2014/02/gates.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="https://omid.dev/images/2014/02/gates.jpg" alt="gates" /> </a></p> <p>REDMOND, WASHINGTON (<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/">The Borowitz Report</a>)—Bill Gates’s first day at work in the newly created role of technology adviser got off to a rocky start yesterday as the Microsoft founder struggled for hours to install the Windows 8.1 upgrade.</p> <p>The installation hit a snag early on, sources said, when Mr. Gates repeatedly received an error message informing him that his PC ran into a problem that it could not handle and needed to restart.</p>