I'm (Sniff) So Sorry!
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Eliot Spitzer, soon-to-be-former New York governor and the most famous No. 9 since Ted Williams, played with fire and got burned--badly. With his wife by his side (don't get me started, but here's a slideshow of wronged wives), Spitzer now-famously apologized for his transgression(s). Which got me thinking about some famous apologies (here's a slideshow of some), and some apologies that probably should have been profferred in the IT world. I'm sorry Vista has had so many problems. I'm sorry you couldn't access your BlackBerry for so long. I'm sorry we lowered the price of the iPhone right after you stood in line forever to pay a couple hundred more. I'm sorry we let someone steal your data and didn't tell you for a while, TJ Maxx shoppers. I'm sorry we took you over, PeopleSoft. That's all I can think of off the top of my head, but I know you can add to this list. What IT apologies do you think should be offered? |
Comments (7)
I'm sorry that we have made purchasing XP so difficult, just so we could sell Vista, and now you can't (usually) get XP on any personal computer system you buy. Sincerely, MicroSoft $$$$
Posted by Dan Kwitchen | March 13, 2008 1:29 PM
I'm sorry we got caught.
Microsoft.
( on every standard that M$ " supported " since POSIX )
Posted by Art Blackwell | March 13, 2008 6:44 PM
I'm sorry that Netscape was transformed into ad-laden bloatware after we purchased it. And that we only updated it once in a blue moon. But we did release the code to the Mozilla Foundation.
Sincerely,
AOL
I'm sorry I got caught with my hand in the cookie jar, costing shareholders so much in lost value.
Regrets,
Sanjay Kumar
Posted by Stratocaster | March 13, 2008 8:37 PM
We're sorry you had to read about the warrantless wiretapping and e-mail surveillance from the New York Times instead of from us. But we couldn't tell you we were doing it because of the "state secrets" doctrine.
Surreptitiously,
AT&T
Verizon
MCI
Sprint
??
Posted by Howard Beale | March 13, 2008 8:42 PM
I'm sorry too -- for Eliot. I did the same thing, and I didn't have to quit. Heh, heh.
Regards,
William Jefferson Clinton
Posted by Charlie Noble | March 14, 2008 4:11 PM
We're sorry you keep requesting so many documents thru the Freedom of Information Act. (We're not sorry enough to release them anytime soon...just sorry you keep requesting stuff we don't want you to see.)
We're sorry you found out that there really were no WMDs.
We're sorry the 500 BILLION dollar surplus that was there when we took office disappeared right after we took office. (But HALiraqIBURTON isn't.)
We're sorry the war is costing more money than it would have taken to keep Social Security solvent for the next 30 years.
We're sorry that, on a daily basis, it appears that we're using The Bill of Rights as toilet paper.
We're sorry we ditched the email archiving system that would have kept ALL those emails everyone is looking for. No we're not...(snicker).
Not so sincerely,
Gee DumberThanYou Bosh and Stop Yanking My Cheney, Dick
Posted by MGP | March 17, 2008 5:38 PM
I'm sorry, (that I didn't have Ted Kennedy drive my date home.)
Gary Hart
Posted by mikelinpa | March 18, 2008 3:35 PM