Bill Gates and Napoleon Dynamite

September 16, 2005, 2:05 PM by Nate Mook

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has long used spoof videos to break the ice before his keynotes, and PDC 2005 was no exception. In 'Bill Gates Goes to College' the richest man in the world joins Napoleon Dynamite to fix computers at his uncle's business. "Dang. This thing has all kinds of neat stuff," Dynamite says about Office 2003.

Watch the video, courtesy of LonghornBlogs.com.

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Bill Gates and Napoleon Dynamite

September 16, 2005, 2:05 PM by Nate Mook

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