(2003-07-26) -- Microsoft Corporation admitted today that its latest in a series of security flaws is no mistake at all, but actually part of its top secret "O-Box" strategy. O-Box stands for Open-Box, signifying the easy access which all users will have to computers owned by all other users.

"The idea is to open up everyone's hard drive to everyone else. So the entire world of PCs becomes one huge supercomputer," said Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

"It's really the next logical step from open-source software and Napster-like file sharing," said Mr. Gates. "We've long heard that nobody really owns the Internet, and nobody really owns software code, music or movies. Now we're demonstrating that nobody owns the files on his own hard drive. And in fact, you don't really own the computer that sits on your desk or lap."

Mr. Gates said that all of the so-called "bug fixes" that Microsoft users have downloaded were really designed to keep the user's hard drive accessible.

"And all this time, people thought we were just sloppy programmers," he added.