Decades before they'd become the right hand of most MMO players, Ryan used the Windows software Macro Recorder to automatically click one corner of a fresh Minesweeper game, then start a new one. Ryan decided that, rather than keeping the high scores from Gates, he'd work out a way to set an unbeatable one. The coda to this story is rather amazing. Bill has a lot of important decisions to make, and this should not be taking up time!" She asked Ryan to do "a favor for the company… Please don't share with Bill advances in the Minesweeper record." Gates was playing too much and this was "not a good thing. French would become Melinda Gates in 1994. "Melinda was a level above me, but we in the same group," Ryan said. This was a guy who didn't have time to waste. Gates' love for Minesweeper has been known of since the early '90s, but what Orland's book uncovers is the quasi-obsessive depths it had reached, and at a time when Bill Gates was the most important figure at what was becoming one of the biggest companies in the world. was a former Boeing executive, and he was not a humorful guy, so… the idea that Bill is sitting there after work, going into the president’s office so he could play Minesweeper, it was just weird imagery." It’s on the machine in Mike Hallman’s office.' And like, 'What?'"
"So it was one Sunday afternoon, and we get email from Bill saying, 'Hey, I think I just got a new high score. This being 1990 there was also an honesty system around the high score records, which were in a simple text file, whereby any new record score had to have been seen by someone else. Gates would get so obsessed with the game that he removed it from his own machine.
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