If you ever doubted about Bill Gates' geek status, you only need to watch his interview with John Stewart in the Daily Show on the eve of the Windows Vista launch.

The interview itself isn't that interesting, but Stewart drives home two essential points that underline why Microsoft Windows is still too complicated. First he leaves Gates speechless when he asks what the F12 button is for (seriously... when is the last time that anybody used it?). Later Gates baffles his host when he talks about beta software, a term that few people outside the world of geeks understand.

Microsoft, or at least Gates, still doesn't understand that normal people just want a computer with an on and off switch, not a Swiss army knife.

30 Jan 2007