03 Jul 1997
Microsoft software is apparently called 'bloatware' in some quarters.
Now comes the news of Bill Gates' confession that he was delivering overfed, overinflated products back in 1977.
According to the author of The Essential Elvis, Gates revealed all when he sent an email to an unnamed correspondent earlier this year: 'Elvis was never alive. He was a computer-generated figure, and his voice was the work of Creative Labs. In 1997, Microsoft decided to put all our focus on Windows and the Elvis project was dropped. Sorry.'
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