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Article

My First BillG Review

Author

Joel Spolsky

Description

Joel gives us a peep hole into what it was like to be in a "review" meeting with Bill Gates at Microsoft during its hayday. I never thought of Billy as the kind of guy to be so liberal with the F-bomb.

Now that Bill Gates has announced he is stepping down, you can expect a lot of similar reminiscent-style articles to begin popping up across the web. Should be interesting.

Favorite Quote(s):

"In my BillG review meeting, the whole reporting hierarchy was there, along with their cousins, sisters, and aunts, and a person who came along from my team whose whole job during the meeting was to keep an accurate count of how many times Bill said the F word. The lower the f***-count, the better."

I am hunting for a way to easily read/write Microsoft Word documents and came across a possible solution:

Office 2003 Update: Redistributable Primary Interop Assemblies

I learned about it through a post on CSharpFriends.com, which also includes some sample code.

Hopefully it will be the solution I am looking for.

Update 06/02/2005: After several attempts I could not get the included msi file to install, so I have given up for now. I think it may have to do with the fact that I am using Office 2003 SP2, rather than SP1.