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http://www.computerworld.com/article/2483957/microsoft-windows/bill-gates-gets-serious-about-microsoft-bob.html http://www.computerworld.com/article/2483957/microsoft-windo... "'We were just ahead of our time, like most of our mistakes,' Gates says of personal agents like the notorious Clippy character." "Gates has a personal connection to Microsoft Bob -- more than it being just another product launched on his watch -- as his wife, Melinda French Gates, was a marketing manager on the Bob project."