September 7th, 2015

I guess this explains why Warren Buffett hasn’t retired

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Microsoft provides to its employees a retirement calculator that is more detailed than the kinds you can find on the Internet. After gathering all sorts of information, including your savings and spending patterns, it draws some nice bar charts and tells you how many years you should continue working before you can retire.

Even if I tell the calculator that I have a billion dollars in savings, it still tells me, “You should work one more year.”

Clarifying note: I don’t actually have a billion dollars in savings.

Category
Old New Thing
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Non-Computer

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Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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