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That’s correct. I got started at Microsoft as a janitor. It was hard work. And extremely boring. All they ever talked about was how great UNIX was and how extremely bad their software was. Every day. Day in and day out it was always the same.

So I started to wear headphones at work to drown out the sound of teeth gnashing. Right. At first I bought an iPod but I was threatened with termination so I had to leave it at home.

The one thing about Microsoft that I really did enjoy was the bonuses. Even people like me got them. So anyways, I put myself through college on the money that I got from the Russians and the bonuses that I earned at Microsoft.

I’ll never forget the day that I turned in my broom and I got to work on Windows Notepad. It was a turning point in my life.

After turning what was a mediocre 115.3 release into something that was almost useful they promoted again to work on the Windows kernel.

The kernel is the heart and soul of the Operating System and I couldn’t believe it. I had started out as a janitor and now I was to work on what makes an Operating System an Operating system. It was just incredible.

So my Russian handlers asked me to slip some code into the kernel so I did. It made Windows worser if you can believe that and they noticed that the changed was logged to my name so I was demoted o just a software tester position. Oh well, at least I was still in the company.

So one night I was reviewing the code and noticed about three lines of code that always makes Windows crash. So I copied the source code onto my laptop and took it home. There I removed those three lines of code and recompiled Windows. It never broke. Never. Not even once. Then I found the code that let’s virii run on the computer and I just removed it. It was easy. After that no more virii. I was then told to look for the code to find key stroke loggers and after about a month I found it.

We was going to have a good version of Windows that never crashed, didn’t allow virii and you couldn’t install a key logger. It was amazing.

Right. So I left the laptop with the code on it in my car and went into the bar. When I returned the laptop was gone and as a joke someone left my a Linux laptop. I cried.