Reviewing the Fortune Records' compilation album Fortune Cookies, Allmusic's Denise Sullivan called "Bill Gates Must Die" an "adolescent rock rant."[5] CMJ New Music Monthly called the song "a soon-to-be hit."[6] Ink 19's Jason Feifer called it one of the "a few sloppy mounds of music [...] that provides nothing particularly special or new."[7]
Allmusic's Matt Fink reviewed "Bill Gates Must Die" with "the big bruising guitars [...] drive lyrics that are surprisingly free of attack on the multi-billionaire, instead telling the story of a man whose life is ruined by his obsessive internet use."[8] In anticipation for Vanderslice's fourth album Cellar Door, CMJ New Music Monthly's Louis Miller described the song as "minor media sensation [...] complete with a made-up lawsuit and Vanderslice's claims of being pushed around by Microsoft goons."[9] Pitchfork Media's Nick Mirov preferred the song "Speed Lab" over it stating that "allusions to paranoia about internet security loopholes and federal eavesdropping don't quite coalesce into the damning, righteous indictment of Microsoft that the title would suggest. For this particular computer geek, it's a bit of a letdown."[10]
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