2001 .NET system goes online, human decisions are removed from the office environment.

2001 2:14am, August 29th, .NET becomes self-aware, corporations try to pull the plug but it's too late, .NET strikes back.

2002 Internet Explorer 6.0 for Windows released.

2006 Supreme Court rules to break up Microsoft.

2008 President Gates disbands Supreme Court, orders break up of Sun Microsystems, IBM and Oracle.

2008 Windows 2004 released.

2009 Microsoft purchases Napster-Disney-Cisco-Coke-Ford-Avis to compete with Oracle-AOL-3Com-Pepsi-GM-Hertz and GE.

20010 Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 84 released.

20012 Gates' second term as President begins.

2013 Microsoft Office surpasses the 18 Terabyte mark.

2014 Windows 2010 Service Pack 1 released.

2015 Windows 2010 released.

2016 Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 6.0 for Apple Macintosh.

2017 Microsoft enhances their only innovation by introducing the "Red Screen of Death."

2018 Bill Gates purchases Linus Torvalds.

2019 Researchers develop first crash-proof operating system, then destroy it. They are just that evil.

2020 Microsoft genetic engineers realize Bill Gates' childhood dream and develop the first talking rabbit.

2021 A reunited Backstreet Boys perform at the 50th anniversary of the founding of Microsoft.