Bill did say the first thing he thinks about when he wakes up are the children.

the fact that this actually exists is almost disturbing.

However, it did give many lulz.

Next they should write about the grinch who stole macworld while the apple hoos carved their macpro-beef

"a special gift" eh?

well, i did buy the girlfriend a laptop, and then she gave me "a special gift"

your uncle that sells like bark.

*smells like

Why would "Daddy" buy "Mommy" a stupid server to show his affection? Roses or a trip to the spa would be better and the "Daddy" would get something in return...in the bedroom.

Lol - Mommy - why does timmy have a server and I don't? Doesn't daddy love you? Mommmy?!?

@jbhitter24:
that line alone makes this book worth buying. it's like an easter egg, in print format!

"Mommy" is his eighty-seventh book? Is it jus me or does this sound a little bit wrong?

this is pretty funny. It baically says that your parents don't love you if you don't have a server.
I think godwhacker & quentinr already covered the rest of my comment.

I'll put this by my Dapper Drake copy of Everybody Poops.

"You know why your daddy needs a home server? To store that PORN he loves to watch when he's back from that boring office fulfilled with servers with more PORN."

lol, this could be the best marketing I've ever seen come out of MS

Yeah this is brilliant. Think Different indeed!

"Mommy and Daddy can share they're BDSM bisexual pic - omg forgot to turn the sharing off on this - with Grampa!!! I bet he and your school friends will love it!"

[www.stayathomeserver.com] << it's there too :)

i bet this the author was bullied when he was little, grew up, live in his mom's basement and got fired from his office work and wrote this book. this book is just wrong all over

But then one day daddy shared a song he shouldn't have...

Mommy, why are there federal investigators in the house?
Where are they taking our server?

Where are they taking daddy??

Jesus H. Christ

So at Macworld will there be the X-Serve Comic Book? That would be kind of exciting to see. "All of a sudden, the Xserve shoots it hard drives at the evil Bill-o-tron!"

I'm still wavering between amused and disturbed.

amazing read. i really want my daddy to buy me a windows home server. is it compatible with macs?

OMG BEST BABY BOOK EVER...I am so getting this for my first kid

cute. for those who don't seem to realize, this is a complete joke... check out the 3rd pic in the gallery.

Oh this isn't real?
Oh no!

It may not be a real book but it is a real Viral Campaign and you are part of it

Wow daddy is just SO smart. He installed a COMPUTER by him self! Wow! It's not like a 12 year old couldn't have done the same thing!

And their kids might even make fun of you!
But that's okay. You know why?

Because when you're grownup and driving your BMW to work at your job as a VP of IT Systems, they'll already be at work emptying your trash cans into that big, smelly truck they ride around on doing their job!

@Seiven: With that opinion I hope you never get kids! lol... (joke)

seriously... that book is very disterbing... even thou its for sure just a joke..

"Offices are why people get grumpy and say bad words."

I hear that... haha

Ok. this is off topic but it bugs me, and as you're all brilliant geeks, I'll get it off my chest. The first comment:
"Bill did say the first thing he thinks about when he wakes up are the children."

This is grammatical suicide... The first THING(one thing. Singular)he thinks about... IS...." You're talking about the thing, not the children.

And this: "...i bet this the (what?) author was bullied when he was little, grew up, live in his mom's basement and got fired from his office work...."
Capitalise "I". Please.
...lived (past tense).
...got fired... No, WAS fired. Got equals received.

Spelling errors all over the place.... Is poor grammar the hallmark of geeks? Say it's not so!

It is a real book and it is a real viral campaign and we're now all part of it. Of course it's meta-advertising.

@WriterWriter:
...or it could have been "lives" as in he still resides in his parent's basement and "got [himself] fired" as in he brought it on himself.

"Ok. this is off topic but it bugs me"
A capital "T" might have been appropriate for a grammar Nazi such as yourself.

Daddy got the Server pre-loaded with Vista Home Server so *he* wouldn't have to keep saying "Yes" and "Ok" to all of Mommy's "requests".

M: "Recycle the trash!"
WHS: "Ok."
M: "Oh honey, this Server is the best gift ever!"
WHS: "Windows needs your permission to continue"
M: "Honey?!"

'...it bugs me, and as your all brilliant geeks...'

Never use a comma before 'and' simple rules are the easiest to forget. Also another one that most people forget is 'never pick at someone else's grammar in a thread, you will crash and burn.'

That book is evil, pure evil I tell ya! We have to burn it!

That's some disturbing stuff. Any child who is forced to read that will grow up really messed up.

@WriterWriter: My fellow geeks unite, kill the grammar Nazi!

@ QUENTINR

Umm some of us women would get much more excited over a server than a trip to a spa. Surely you are not suggesting that all women are alike. I happen to be a computer geek from the beginning and a gamer to boot (though mostly pc gaming). :p Ok, I do admit to being a sucker for roses tho. ;)

@WriterWriter: Boil that dust speck!

Maybe if this were some kind of high-fallutin' literary blog spelling would mean more, but this is the internet.

Mentioning spelling here is like standing on a corner yelling at the way people tie their shoes.

The shoes are on? You get the point of whatever they're saying?

Super!

That was hilarious!!

It's a joke, but you can't really blame people for not expecting that from Microsoft. Still, it will probably show up somewhere in a year or so's time as fact. after all that am how the internets works.

Disturbing. Who cares if the kids understand a server in the house? They stay chained up in the backyard anyways. What us guys really need is a book that justifies buying a server to our WIVES. Just stick Fabio on the cover and they'll read it.

Why is they assume Dad does the server install? I am a Mom and I do all the hardware/software installs, upgrades and maintenance at my house. Its so 1950's for MS to assume all parenting is done by couples, and for that matter, that parenting couples are made up of only a male and female.

What's odd is I actually learned a lot. I'm pretty technical, and work with servers all day, yet I didn't realize that you can use remote access to view your pictures and movies. Maybe it's too early.

@WriterWriter: dick

@Curves: Maybe it's because Windows installs are little more than babysitting. I think it's very forward thinking - let Daddy do the babysitting for a change. It's high time he watches the server. Sure, he'd rather be wasting time with his friends on the 360, but parenting is about teamwork and Daddy needs to contribute more.

Maybe Daddy should change the install disc every so often. Or take time off from work to take care of the server when it comes down with a virus. There's no reason that all the defragging and clean installs and partitioning should be done by Mommy.

But, if it's really that important to you, fine - you can hold your own damned door and do your own Windows install. If you need Daddy, he'll be on the couch, being his regular "useless-as-tits-on-a-bull" self.

PS - Maybe you should read "Linux Has Two Admins" instead.

I was going to comment about the other comments but all I really want to know is where can I get this book. I read to my children every night and this just seems like a great way to screw them up more.

This thing reads like it was written by the AI voice from portal.