|
31.5 Gigabugs To Date (3/6/00)
|
 
|
| | |
You know, according to the Encyclopedia Smithsonian, there are 200 million bugs for every human being on this planet. Evidently, about 80% of those are in Microsoft products-- but that sure isn't stopping people from buying them. Yes, 63,000 documented bugs notwithstanding, Sm@rt Reseller reports that the company sold 500,000 copies of Windows 2000 in the product's first two weeks of retail availability. That's half a million copies, multiplied by 63,000... lessee, here... yup, 31.5 billion bugs shipped to date. And that doesn't count all the copies sold outside the U.S. or directly to "major accounts."
Windows marketing director Keith White says these sales figures "exceeded Microsoft's expectations," proving once again that even Microsoft can't believe how many people actually buy its crap. And while ZDNet AnchorDesk refers to Win2K's sales as "brisk," we can at least take solace in the knowledge that, according to The Register, Sony sold twice as many PlayStation 2 game consoles in two days than Microsoft sold Win2K licenses in two weeks. So at least the world's got its priorities straight.
Still, though, we can't help but be a little freaked out by the fact that so many people are actually willing to shell out cash for a collection of bugs in a box. We should probably start buying up shares in companies that make bug repellant. At least we can rest secure in the knowledge that those particular creepy-crawlies won't be nesting in our computers. But just knowing they're out there is giving us the willies...
| |
| |
 |
SceneLink (2137)
|  |
 |
|
And Now For A Word From Our Sponsors |
| | | |
|
| |
|
 | | The above scene was taken from the 3/6/00 episode: March 6, 2000: Motorola's still got a leash on IBM, preventing the release of 650 MHz G4 chips to Apple; is this payback for the Clone Wars? Meanwhile, rumors of upcoming light-up keyboards in Apple laptops resurface with a vengeance, and sales of Windows 2000 have surpassed Microsoft's expectations, putting the number of bugs shipped at a whopping 31.5 gigabugs and counting...
Other scenes from that episode: 2135: Dish Best Served Slow (3/6/00) Wow, these are strange days indeed; the PowerPC AIM alliance consists of just three entities-- Apple, IBM, and Motorola-- and by some strange twist of fate, our buddy the typically melodramatic Apple is the one not directly involved in the current soap opera... 2136: Lufgt-Ip Krybiarfds? (3/6/00) Glory be, hallelujah, we see the light! The light-up rumor lives, and no one's giving thanks more than we are. We've been almost obsessed with the concept of light-up Macs ever since the first erroneous reports from the iMac's surprise unveiling claimed that the whole translucent case glowed eerily while the system was in use...
Or view the entire episode as originally broadcast... | |  |
|
|
