My email to Bill Gates
I love working at Microsoft. And that's not as sickly sweet as it sounds, it really is a fun place to work. There's always interesting stuff going on and lots of incredibly clever people around. Another cool thing is that I work for the richest man in the world and, occasionally, I get the chance to "interact" with him in some way.
So a few weeks ago I decided to send him an email - just from me, to him. Of course he must get thousands of emails a day from all sorts of people - his email is widely known outside of Microsoft - so I wasn't that hopeful of a quick response. What was I emailing him about? Well, I wanted him to sign some stuff that we could give away at the Windows Vista and Microsoft Office launch events.
I'm pleased to say I got a response almost straight away and, to cut a long story short, we now have some signed merchandise to give away: A Windows Vista t-shirt signed by Bill Gates, two Windows Vista magazines signed by Bill, and also (an incredible coup) a t-shirt signed by Bill as well as Jim Allchin and a number of members of the core Windows Vista product team ie the people responsible for the development of Windows Vista.
I wanted to make people aware of this and to let you know that we're planning to give these away at some point during the run of the online launch ie by Feb 19th (online launch runs from Jan 19th to Feb 19th). More details later but I wanted tell you all about this as I think it's pretty cool generally :-)
Oh and this is just for us developer folks in the UK of course.
Comments
Anonymous
January 15, 2007
Can I have one? I'll wear it and do whatever you want to create publicity (yes, selling myself for Bill Gates merchandise)... PLEASE?Anonymous
January 15, 2007
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January 15, 2007
MrMckeb - keep your eyes peeled for details on how you could win one of these. As soon as I have the info I'll let you know. MikeW - all I can say is that there are some great people at MS Ireland and I know if they can make stuff happen they will do so, if there has been a lack of goodies to date it definitely won't be through want of trying.Anonymous
January 15, 2007
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January 15, 2007
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January 16, 2007
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January 16, 2007
I have some autographed books by Ray Oz.. You won't see those on eBay.. ;-)Anonymous
January 17, 2007
woohooo! even more excited about the online event now!!!Anonymous
January 19, 2007
It's 17:37!!! How on earth do i answer the question??? i can't even find it!! the Homepage (default) isnt changing!! It just says that at 5:30p.m. i will be able to answer the question!!Anonymous
January 19, 2007
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January 19, 2007
I didn't see any mention of these t-shirts today, I'm assuming they will make an appearance tomorrow? :-) Perhaps I have my priorities wrong but I'm more excited about Windows Vista t-shirts than winning a copy of Vista itself! :-DAnonymous
January 21, 2007
hi! i am emma age 11 and if this is realy the famous bill gates then i was just wandering if you would like to buy some girl scout cookies! that is if you truley like cookies! because my girl scout troop would hope for someone to bye a lot of cookies from us because we were realy looking forward to going to a very fun place this year like washington dc. that will only happen if we sell a lot of cookies! so we would really jsut like some support from you! so if you get a chance please try to take some time and sit down and read this email so we could have a fun trip and we also use our money to do service projects!Anonymous
January 25, 2007
Hi Emma, No, this isn't Bill Gates. But I'll be sure to pass your message on :-)Anonymous
February 06, 2007
Emma - tried to contact you but I don't have your details, please email me via this blog. Thanks.Anonymous
February 07, 2007
A little while ago I posted a blog entry about some merchandise that Bill Gates signed that we were planningAnonymous
May 16, 2008
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May 19, 2008
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