  urlLink MemeFirst : "Why businesses should run on Windows On January 31, 2002, Martha Stewart walked over to her personal assistant's desk, asked her to pull up the phone messages for the previous December, found the crucial one from her broker about ImClone trading downwards, took her assistant's mouse, highlighted the message, and replaced it with an innocuous 're imclone'. She then called her son-in-law, a lawyer, who then met the assistant, Ann Armstrong, at a restaurant. As Henry Blodget recounts in Slate, Armstrong told the son-in-law that she was in 'a bit of a quandary' about getting the message back because her message-log wasn't backed up on the server.
When Armstrong got home that evening, she spoke again to Stewart, who asked her whether she had been able to put the message back in its original form. She explained that she hadn't, because she couldn't remember what the original message was. Ultimately, Armstrong testified, she discovered a copy of the original message on her computer because her computer had crashed and automatically saved everything.
Windows to the rescue! If Armstrong had been using a computer which didn't crash, then the message log would never have been backed up, and Stewart would have had to live with her dodgy edit. But in the end, thanks to the unreliability of Microsoft operating systems, little damage was done. Bill Gates really is some kind of genius! " 
