Microsoft CEO Thieve Ballmer announced that while the company's current
goal is to release versions of Windows that fully disable any Internet
components the product will run on, it could take until 2002 or 2003 to
accomplish the complete obliteration of productivity and security.
".NOT is the future of Microsoft," Ballmer said. "We want your PC data
to .NOT be found, we want your money to .NOT be in your account, but
most of all, we want our customers to .NOT be able blame Windows because
we will hide it as thoroughly as possible."
To streamline the process, Microsoft plans to provide a series of
.NOT-based "building blockers" for use by application developers. The
building blockers will support productivity suppression in other
operating systems in addition to Windows, Ballmer promised.
"We've always had a strong level of interdestructibility-sharing with
non-Microsoft platforms," he said. "So we plan to release associated
products such as LiNOT and MaciNOT.
"Delivering these quality products will be a bug -- er, big -- deal,"
Ballmer said.
