Whenever I was in meetings at MS with people who were passing on information directly from the man, they would always refer to him as Bill. I never heard his la

Whenever I was in meetings at MS with people who were passing on information directly from the man, they would always refer to him as Bill. I never heard his last name mentioned once. "Bill told us he spent $400m on this. Bill wants his money back." If you are also called Bill at Microsoft, this might have been confusing.