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I want to see this video!!!

Ok, you BT nerds (you know who you are)... you must find this clip and send it to me. First one to find it gets homemade cookies (your choice) mailed to them. You figure out how you'll explain it to your SO.

Microsoft's Gates faces off with Napoleon Dynamite
Tuesday September 13 10:12 PM ET

Pick your favorite geek: Napoleon Dynamite or Bill Gates?

Seeking to capitalize on the popularity of the 2004 cult movie "Napoleon Dynamite," Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday screened a video spoof for software developers in which the film's celebrated anti-hero reports to work as a programer for the world's largest software maker.

In a face-off between the two nerd icons, Jon Heder, the actor who plays Napoleon Dynamite, beats Gates in a slapping match to become the head of the software giant.

Gates is shown recruiting Heder's fictional character, after which they are seen together in ill-fitting brown suits on Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Washington.

In the last scene of the video spoof, Gates is seen scurrying into the office of his boss, Napoleon Dynamite.

Microsoft often uses major events to poke fun at its competitive business culture and and its hands-on chairman, Gates, the company's largest individual shareholder and the world's richest man with an estimated net worth of more than $48 billion.

Microsoft showed developers preliminary versions of its upgrades of its flagship Windows and Office programs to software developers at this weeks' conference in Los Angeles.



2005-09-14 2:59 PM
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And you call yourself Geeks?!?!

2005-09-14 3:02 PM
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I am by no means a tech geek, but I did do a simple seach and couldn't find it.

SORRY!

2005-09-14 3:04 PM
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2005-09-14 5:59 PM
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Subject: RE: Thunderdome: Napoleon Dynamite v Bill Gates
I'm a BT nerd. In fact, I used to work for MS in Redmond. They were frequently putting together crazy spoof videos that made fun of executives. They usually got passed around the company afterwards. I'll see what my sources can do for me...
2005-09-14 8:47 PM
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TriComet: "What are you going to do today 3558"3558: "Whatever I flippin' feel like. Gosh!"


2005-09-14 9:03 PM
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Someone please find this . . . have to see it.
2005-09-15 9:29 AM
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Subject: RE: Thunderdome: Napoleon Dynamite v Bill Gates

This pic will have to suffice until one of us finds a downloadable clip...

Oh, and I saw a kid coming out of PetsMart last night - had the Napoleon hair but not as red. I mean serious Napoleon hair.



Edited by Renee 2005-09-15 9:42 AM




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2005-09-15 6:01 PM
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keep me in the loop...
2005-09-16 9:23 AM
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Ta-DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2679657?htv=12



Edited by OldAg92 2005-09-16 9:31 AM
2005-09-16 9:27 AM
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The link seems to be bad. Did you happen to download it?

Edited by runningfoo 2005-09-16 9:28 AM


2005-09-16 9:33 AM
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Updated post with another link...try this one...it worked for me, but then so did the other one.

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2679657?htv=12



Edited by OldAg92 2005-09-16 9:34 AM
2005-09-16 9:51 AM
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Nice..Funny stuff
2005-09-16 10:15 AM
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OldAg92 - 2005-09-16 9:23 AM

Ta-DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2679657?htv=12

You rock! Thank you, thank you, thank you.

2005-09-16 10:55 AM
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GOSH! very funny. Gates has quite a sense of humor. i'm impressed.
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