Kev's Collection of Windows Humor

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Here is a collection of jokes, essays, and other quirky items whose target is that fabulously quirky operating system, Windows.

When the first releases of Pentium processor were revealed to be inept at certain technical calculations, a torrent of Pentium jokes appeared overnight. I've collected some of the best on their own page.

Enjoy!



The return of the Age of Miracles
An account of the impact of Windows 95 upon the cosmos

FANS and detractors of the long-awaited Microsoft Windows 95 have been amazed by the incredible events surrounding the August 24 release. Windows 95 has been hailed by industry giant Pierson Holcombe Pewter as "the most advanced operating system ever produced". But even he could not have predicted this week's events.

It began when peace was declared in Bosnia. Said Pytir Milivocic, spokesperson for the Serbs: "Now that (Windows 95) has been released, we just don't see any reason to fight each other. This is an amazing product."

Then France announced its intention to stop all testing of nuclear weapons. "We used to think that our national boundaries were of the utmost import. To safeguard them, it was necessary to continue testing (nuclear weapons)," said Jacques Fenetre of the French government. "The Microsoft Network has changed all that. It's such a small planet!"

On the other side of the "small planet", Bill Clinton and Saddam Hussein met face-to-face for the first time. After a tense greeting, they started sharing notes about their experiences as Windows 95 beta-testers. Soon the two lifelong enemies were laughing and chatting like old friends. In a startling display of candour, Hussein said: "If I hadn't been so frustrated with the beta, I'd have backed off from Kuwait much sooner." Bush laughed and said: "Well, Saddam, I told you it'd be released eventually, all you had to do was wait."

Oil prices dropped as OPEC transferred its accounting software to the new platform.

On the health front, Boston housewife Hildegard Wicca reports that Windows 95 has removed her facial warts. "I sat down in front of the computer, pressed 'Start', and felt something odd on my face. When I looked in a mirror, my warts were gone!"

Even more amazing is the story of Mark Cense, a Los Alamos man suffering from incurable cancer. His doctors were amazed yesterday when, after simply buying Windows 95, his cancer went into remission.

When asked for comment on these miraculous events, Microsoft's Bill Gates, replied: "If you think this is good, just wait until you see Windows 97!" (due to ship in March of 1999)

Reports that China's release of dissident Harry Wu was contingent on his returning with "as many copies of Windows 95 as he can carry" are unconfirmed at this time.




And then there was a fellow who was considering purchase of a software product that was labelled ...
System Requirements: Windows 95 or better
... and so he bought a Mac to go with it.


Free Windows emulator

#include 
#include 
#include 

char make_prog_look_big[1600000];

main()
{
   if (detect_cache())
      disable_cache();

   if (fast_cpu())
      set_wait_states(lots);

   set_mouse(speed, very_slow);
   set_mouse(action, jumpy);
   set_mouse(reaction, sometimes);

   printf("Welcome to Windoze 3.999 (we might get it right yet)\n");

   if (system_ok())
      crash(to_dos_prompt);
   else
      system_memory = open("a:\swp0001.swp", O_CREATE);

   while(1) 
   {
      sleep(5);
      get_user_input();
      sleep(5);
      act_on_user_input();
      sleep(5);

      if (rand() < 0.9)
         crash(complete_system);
   }
   return(unrecoverable_system);
}



McNealy on Windows

Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy doesn't think much of Windows 95: "This Windows 95 hairball has become so big, so unmanageable, so hard to use, so hard to configure, so hard to keep up and running, so hard to keep secure. Windows 95 is a great gift to give your kid this Christmas because it will keep your kid fascinated for months trying to get it up and running and trying to figure out how to use it." McNealy says the biggest problem in computing today is that people confuse computer activity with corporate output and productivity: "These (systems like Windows 95) are not productivity tools, they are personal activity generators." (Investor's Business Daily 5 Oct 95 A34)


A Startling Quotation
"Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under it's own name...without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art"
- Bill Gates, 1983



The following was posted verbatim on a number of newsgroups. I have no idea if the author was serious, or merely entertaining...

          
        Warning! Bill Gates may be the next antichrist!

* Revelation 13:18 says:
*
*    Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the
*    number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His
*    number is 666.

        The real name of the Bill Gates is William Henry Gates III.
        Nowadays he is known as Bill Gates (III), where "III" means
        the order of third (3rd.)

        By converting the letters of his current name to the ASCII-
        values (which are used in computers) you will get the following:

     B    I    L    L    G    A    T    E    S    3

     66 + 73 + 76 + 76 + 71 + 65 + 84 + 69 + 83 + 3 = 666
                                                      ===
* Daniel 7:23 says:
*
*    "Thus he said:
*    'The fourth beast shall be
*    A fourth kingdom on Earth,
*    Which shall be different from all other kingdoms,
*    And shall devour the whole Earth,
*    Trample it and break it in pieces.

        Current history knows three antichrists:
        - Adolf Hitler
        - Joseph Stalin
        - The Pope

        Is the fourth beast Microsoft corporation which represents the power of money?

* Revelation 13:16 and 13:18 says:
*
*    He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and
*    slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads.
*
*    and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or
*    the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

        "Windows compatible?"

The tree of evil bears bitter fruit -- Microsoft



God calls Boris Yeltsin, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates into his office and says, "The world will end in 30 days. Go back and tell your people."

So, Boris Yeltsin goes to the Russian people and says, "I have bad news and I have worse news. The bad news is that we were wrong, there is a God. The worse news is that the world will end in 30 days."

Bill Clinton goes on TV and tells the American people, "I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is that the basic family values upon which we have based our lives on are right - there is a God. The bad news is that the world will end in 30 days."

Bill Gates goes to his executive committee and says, "I have great news and I have fabulous news. The great news is that God thinks I'm important. The fabulous news is that we don't have to fix the bugs in Windows 95!"



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