I just came across this exerpt on http://www.mech3.org, I thought it was kinda funny, so, I decided to share it. Enjoy!
September 3rd, 2008
---The real truth of XP SP3---
It was revealed yesterday at our Community forums the real truth behind MicroSoft’s XP Service Pack 3 release. Here is an excerpt of the summarized proposal of what was guesstimated to be the inclination of the great Bill Gates:
Gates: Darn that Battletech.
Ballmer: What’s wrong with it?
Gates: SILENCE YOU FOOL! HAVE I TAUGHT YOU NOTHING?!
Ballmer: Google is bad?
Gates: AND BATTLETECH! BATTLETECH IS VERY BAD!
Ballmer: Um… why?
Gates: Because it provides competition.
Ballmer: To WHAT?!
Gates: To my giant army of mecha that I plan on taking over the world with
Ballmer: we don’t have-
Gates: YES WE DO!
Ballmer: Oh. But how would a bunch of fictional robots fight our REAL ones?
Gates: It… I… go make it suck. NOW!
Ballmer: YES! But how?
Gates: First, we’ll make a game.
Ballmer: And make money from it!
Gates: NO. Money is irrelevant. I simply want to destroy Battletech. We’ll call it, say, MechAssault and make it suck. Badly.
Ballmer: Can we afford to do that?
Gates: People will buy anything. Remember Windows ME?
Ballmer: Oh, that’s right. But what about the people who already own a BattleTech game?
Gates: Umm…. let’s see… we’ll create a 3rd service pack for XP.
Ballmer: Didn’t we already fix XP and make it perfect?
Gates: Yes, but this 3rd service pack will break BattleTech games.
Ballmer: I think that’s asking for another lawsuit.
Gates: Fine. Make up some crap it’ll supposedly do and make it break ALL the good games.
Ballmer: ALL of them,?! WHY?!
Gates: Because that way no one will catch on to my diabolical schemes to break Battletech! NOW GO!
*Ballmer leaves the area*
Ballmer: OK EVERYONE LISTEN UP! I HAVE A NEW ASSIGNMENT FOR ALL YOU CODE MONKEY FREAKS!
CMF: *adds in Windows ME code to replace the game support that XP had*