On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 08:57:27AM -0800, Thaths wrote:

> Back in my day being directly attached to the Chairman simply meant
> that one's Revolutionary credentials were impeccable and one made love

Revolutionary and Microsoft in one sentence, the very fabric of spacetime
is gonna give. Considered all the smart folks they hired, they must have 
invented
something novel during all the Net millenia they've been around -- but I'm
completely at loss what it might be. Anybody? Has Redmond ever produced
(meaining: not acquired) something interesting? This is not a troll, all 
thorough searches down diverse memory lanes come up empty.

> to one's Little Red Book at night. :-)

Speaking of making love, has BillGe a known weakness for female
interns?
 
> A friend of mine at Netscape who used to compile a weekly 'Microsoft
> and IBM Watch' newsletter was promoted to be the personal henchman of
> the Chairman (Jim Barksdale). This friend of mine had a sense of
> humour. He changed his .sig to say that his title was 'Waylon
> Smithers'[1].

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