midnight in the garden of windows

midnight in the garden of windows

In the beginning, Bill purchased the competition and their technology. The competition was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the monitors, and the Spirit of Bill was moving over the 16-bit bus.

And Bill said, "Let the markets bring forth swarms of paying customers, and let the revenue flow across the firmament of the internet." And Bill saw that it was good.

and darkness was upon the face of the monitors

And Bill said, "Let us make the operating system in our image, after our likeness; and let us have dominion over every thing that creeps upon the marketplace."

So Bill created the operating system in his own image, in the image of Bill he created it. And Bill blessed it and said "Be fruitful and multiply; and have dominion over everything that moves on the NASDAQ."

let us have dominion over every thing that creeps upon the
marketplace

An application flowed out of Redmond, to run on the operating system, and there it divided and became many applications. The name of the first is Word, it is the one which flows around the whole of the Corporate market, where there is gold.

And then Bill formed the Internet Explorer from the dust of the competitor, and breathed into it undocumented operating system hooks, and the browser became a living thing.

Then Bill took the user, and put him in the garden of Windows, and commanded the user "You may freely click upon anything on the desktop, but on the tree of the registry thou shall not click, for in the day that you click on it your operating system shall die."

Now the Office Assistant was more crafty than any other wild creature Bill had made. It said to the user "Did Bill say 'you shall not click on any icon of the desktop?'". And the user said to the Assistant "We may click on the icons of the desktop, but Bill said 'You shall not click on the tree which is in the midst of the operating system, neither shall you edit it, lest your operating system die'."

on the tree of the registry thou shall not click

for in the day that you click on it your operating system shall die

The Office Assistant said to the user "Your operating system will not die. For Bill knows that when you click on it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like Bill, knowing the difference between solid product and this crash-ware."

So when the user saw that the registry was good to edit, and that this was desired to be wise, he clicked on its icon and edited. Then the eyes of the user were opened, and he saw that his operating system was naked, and he collected floppies together and made himself a backup.

the eyes of the user were opened, and he saw that his operating system was naked

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