Microsoft in midair
Microsoft and the airplane incident

Surely, some of Microsoft's product visually let you get up in the air... but what happens if employees of Microsoft are in midair?

The catastophy

A plane with the bosses of Lotus, Sun Microsystems, America Online and Netscape aboard crashes down in the Rocky Mountains. Survivors: none. Which company will hold the biggest requiem?

• At Oracle, as unfortunately Bill Gates was not on that plane.

There was a pilot flying ...

Yet another story not so far away from where we already are..

There was a pilot flying a small single engine charter plane, with a couple of very important executives on board. He was coming into Seattle airport through thick fog with less than 10m visibility when his instruments went out. So he began circling around looking for landmark. After an hour or so, he starts running pretty low on fuel and the passengers are getting very nervous. Finally, a small opening in the fog appears and he sees a tall building with one guy working alone on the fifth floor. The pilot banks the plane around, rolls down the window and shouts to the guy "Hey! Where am I?" To this, the solitary office worker replies "You're in a plane." The pilot rolls up the window, executes a 275 degree turn and proceeds to execute a perfect blind landing on the runway of the airport 5 miles away. Just as the plane stops, so does the engine as the fuel has run out.

The passengers are amazed and one asks how he did it. "Simple" replies the pilot, "I asked the guy in that building a simple question. The answer he gave me was 100 percent correct but absolutely useless, therefore that must be Microsoft's support office and from there the airport is just a while away."

... and another plane

This is another story of a plane. This time the microsoft employees are on board...

On the flight returning from the CeBIT a bird shoots through the windscreens of the cockpit of Microsoft's lear jet. Pressure loss and the complete destruction of the cockpit let the pilot try an emergency landing.

The Microsoft employees protest, "Fly on! Perhaps no one's going to realize something's wrong..."