Well, my hunch is that it's real, in a roundabout way. The forbes link wasn't working for me, but the three statements quoted are so banal, they could have been plucked out of any interview or speech made by Bill in the last five years. Then again, it's not like he doesn't have time to do interviews. If that was the case, we would all be using Vista already.

Would the richest man in world take a commercial flight or travel on his own private jet?

It was not just Norwegian papers that were fooled, and it was not only the Bill Gates interview that was fabricated.

The Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet is considering the possibility to sue Bj

This news story is an interesting coincidence, because it so happens that Bill Gates sat next to me last week on a Uranus-to-Neptune rocket flight, and he granted me a lenghty interview. The unabridged version will be in my forthcoming book, but here's a brief excerpt:

bg (Big Gary): Tell me, Mr. Gates, how exactly is it that such a profoundly crappy product as Windows could consistently outsell vastly superior software like Linux and the Mac OS?

BG (Bill Gates): Yes, that's interesting, isn't it? I attribute the success of Windows mostly to my lifelong devotion to Satan. I became a devil-worshipper as a young man, and in 1984 I dedicated the Microsoft Corporation to him.

bg: So the rumors are true! Are your customers aware of the Satanist roots of Microsoft?

BG: Well, they should be, if they've been paying attention at all. I mean, what did they think that dancing paperclip gnome represents-- the one we stuck into Word for no other apparent reason? He's obviously a depiction of Beelzebub. And when Windows unaccountably crashes for about the 10,000th time, wouldn't a normal person begin to suspect demonic possession?

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