Microsoft in the Next 25 Years

This is an old post I though might be nice to have recreated for this site. Enjoy!

I was reading an article the other day on digg, and it had a link to "Microsoft: The Next 25 Years." I read it and it was hilarious! It is kind of old (2000), but still funny. I will post it below so you don't have to go link clicking.

2001.
NET system goes online, human decisions are removed from the office environment

2001
2:14am, August 29th, .NET become self-aware, corporations try to
pull the plug but it's too late, .NET strikes back.

2002
Internet Explorer 6.0 for Windows released.

2004
Supreme Court rules to break up Microsoft.

2005
President Gates disbands Supreme Court, orders break up of Sun Microsystems, IBM and Oracle.

2006
Windows 2004 released.

2007
Microsoft purchases Napster-Disney-Cisco-Coke-Ford-Avis to compete with Oracle-AOL-3Com-Pepsi-GM-Hertz and GE.

2008
Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 84 released.

2009
Gates second term as President begins.

2010
Microsoft Office surpasses the 18 Terabyte mark.

2012
Windows 2010 Service Pack 1 released.

2013
Windows 2010 released.

2015
Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 6.0 for Apple Macintosh.

2016
Microsoft enhances their only innovation by introducing the "Red Screen of * ."

2020
Bill Gates purchases Linus Torvalds.

2021
Researchers develop first crash-proof operating system, then destroy it. They are just that evil.

2024
Microsoft genetic engineers realize Bill Gates' childhood dream and develop the first talking rabbit.

2025
A reunited Backstreet Boys perform at the 50th anniversary of the founding of Microsoft.


Look back at 2016. Have you seen that Longhorn (Microsofts new operating system) will have a red screen of instead of a blue one for it! That is awesome!!! I would post pictures, but blogger dislikes uploading pics.