Pam Heath had led the way through the Microsoft Home, showing off "smart" kitchen appliances and mirrors that display computer-generated messages, before she said the words "Bill G.'s house."
Bill G.'s house?
"Bill G.," it turns out, is how Microsoft employees refer to the company's co-founder and chairman, Bill Gates. Heath is the lead program manager on the team responsible for the Microsoft Home, a technology-laden demonstration project. And as her 90-minute tour of the Microsoft Home made clear, there are differences between it and Gates' own much-talked-about house a few miles away.
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