h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So does this mean that as a Microsoft user, Bill Gates is my god? Scary stuff!

But excellent article, how true

Hmm... scary prospect, I wonder what his commandments would be:
I = Thou shalt not use non-windows products.
II = Thou shalt not blame me for the 18,000 faults in Windows XP.
III = Thou shalt not insult my dorky haircut.

IV = Thou shall not take the name of Windows in vain.
V = Thou shall not covet thy neighbour's OS.
VI = Honour thy server and thy file-store.
VII = Thou shall not spoof IP addresses.
VIII = Remember MIIS, to keep it full of holes.

IX = Thou shalt not hack.
X = Thou shalt not download any graven images.
There, we've got 'em all!

Could be the basis of an article in its own right...

Maybe we should co-write it!

Why not?
We should probably use the original commandments for a starting point... Maybe make it more general than an anti-micro$oft list.
Dang, where do we start?

Hmm... How about keeping 'Thou shalt not download any graven images'? That's pretty general, and sounds kinda like a real commandment.
hmm...
Hang on! How about 'Love thy server and thy neibours server'?
We've gotta do this!

I've set up an entry over on my page, with you as co-author. Take a peek: A692417

In the beginning was the Word, and Bill saw that the Word was good, and the Word was profitable, and he did pour resources into the Word (and the Excel and the Powerpoint and the Access) that they may grow in size and features. And lo! they did grow in size and features to the point that the lowly user was obligated to sacrifice his hard drive to the litany of the upgrade. And the upgrades were many and the patches profuse...

etc.

The bugs did multiply and were fruitful?

DOS begat Windows begat Windows 2 begat Windows 3.x begat Windows 95 begat Windows 98 begat Windows Me begat Windows XP?

You forgot Windows 2000!

Windows 2000 was on the distaff side...

Yeah... Actually, no-one I know has Windows 2K, they've got everything else, though...

I have windows 2K on both my main machines... They're both dual-cpu, so if I need to run Windows apps (which, sadly, I do...) then it was that or Windows NT4...

Windows 2K, on 2 computers?...
Tell me, do you injoy self inflicted pain?

One of them can dual-boot into Linux, and the third machine here runs Mac OS 7.5...

Oh, and there's a Palm Pilot too, which I've installed FORTH on.

... yes... good for you...

Hmmm, getting worried too!

I think I'm going Arthur Dent here...