Bill Gates: Teen Heart-throb!

[Eric Smith]

>>> What's next, Bill Gates jokes?  My favorite is a one-liner:
>>> "If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
>>> Oh wait! He does!"
>> No, even Bill isn't that rich.  In fact, I don't think there's that
>> much money in the world.
>
> One nickel per crash, one crash per day, for each of hundred million
> machines, for a year, is a little over 1.8 gigabux.  How rich is
> Billy-boy?  How many Windows boxen are there?  (I don't know the answer
> to either.)

More than 50e9, and well over 1e8.

I've never used Windows for a full day with only one crash.