From an email

I saw this today on an email newsletter. Thought it was cute and you computers geeks might think it is good for a laugh:

Having recently survived (barely) an upgrade of the Windows XP software on my home PC, I began to wonder what might happen if Microsoft decided to go into the gardening business:

• 97 percent of all flowers, shrubs, trees, fertilizers, trowels, rakes, hoes, spades, lawn mowers, tillers, hoses, sprinklers, pots, fountains, patio blocks, landscape timbers, stepping stones, garden gnomes, and pink flamingos would be sold (or licensed) by Microsoft.
• The other three percent of gardening stuff would look really cool but cost twice as much.
• A Microsoft rake would work only on leaves from Microsoft trees.
• Whenever you planted a new Microsoft shrub, two other shrubs that had been thriving would suddenly die.
• Microsoft vines more than two years old would no longer be supported by Microsoft trellises.
• Plants would be called “software” and tools would be called “hardware.” Problems would be called “user error.”
• Before you could turn off a Microsoft string trimmer you would be asked, “Are you sure?”
• You could not divide a Microsoft perennial without violating copyright laws.
• You couldn’t purchase Microsoft grass seed without also purchasing 20 pounds of Microsoft lawn fertilizer.
• Microsoft’s All-America Selections for 2005 would come out in 2007.

EDIT by matthew: Fixed formatting, tpyo.