Buddy, Can Ya Spare $358 Million?

11) Clippy the MS Word mascot laid off

10) Office 2007 downsized and renamed to Cubicle 2007

9) Put Bill in a Carnival dunk tank -- charge $50 a throw

8) Windows 2008 - The return of DOSShell7) Lawn care service no longer available, employees enjoy new 'rustic' look of Redmond property.

6) Remove directions/manuals from all European shipments -- saves money AND trees!

5) No more Venti Lattes in the MS Coffee Shop (Just Tall, damn them!)

4) Change the old windows 95 logo to 06 and sell it as Windows 2006 EV (European Version).

3) Celebrity endorsements come from C- and D-list actors. "Hi I'm the guy who played the butler on 'Soap' after Robert Guillaume left to do 'Benson'. Umm, yeah...you should buy Vista."2) Fire all the European lawyers.

1) Abandon support for old OSes, and force people to buy an upgrade to XP (Oops, aren't they doing that already?)

Thanks to Ray Gauthier, Tom Kuretich, Wayne Maurer, Wayne Rorex, gregory mamayek, Nick Nielsen Don't forget--there are still plenty of Top 11 lists to come and IT humor online at nwc.com/lastmile.