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Microsoft's Forgotten Mistakes
seattlenerd writes "In light of all of the hype about how much cash Microsoft is sitting on, it's good to be reminded that they do fail. A lot. This piece in Seattle Weekly points out some of the many failures -- from ActiMates Barney to Microsoft at Work to pending disasters in smartphones and interactive TV (despite recent PR-worthy announcements). But like most litter, the failures are swept under the rug in the hopes people don't remember that many 'new' Microsoft ideas are recycled from its own history." Of course, like any big company, Microsoft is not a monolith.
Trolling is all relative. It's kind of like a garden, if you want a certain flower in your garden, it stays. Otherwise, it's a weed that sucks the life from the other plants you want growing.
Ahh yes, I loved the commodore! One fun thing that me and a few other friends have done was overclock the C64 to a whopping 1 mhz, approx. we had to use a deep freeze, that thing got hot after a while! I think I have pictures somewhere.....
I am full of goo... black evil goo
...and the power of the source?
The [b]Crystal.[/b]
The [b]Crystal.[/b]
Here are some of the funny jokes you might get to hear:
1)
"What time is it?"
"I don't know, my watch just blue-screened, it must be running TEH WINDOWZE"
2)
"Johnny just got Doom III, let's go check it out on his computer."
"Is it going run? He's using Windows XP"
3)
"Want to try "
" Do I have to boot into Windows? I hate doing it." (actually, some of the editors have gone for this in actual article headlines)
4)
Any scenario involving a computer freezing at a presentation/workshop:
scenario a, using windows: "HAHA, WINDOWS IS TEH SUCKS."
scenario b, using linux: "HAHA, DID YOU INSMOD WINDOWS???"
The list goes on and on. I wish people would get over it. Yes, Linux is now somewhat usable for a normal human being that doesn't want to invest 4 hours reading up 4 tree levels deep of manpages. Yes, Linux is stable. Why can't you just be happy with this and enjoy yourself?
Can you imagine Luddites visiting a place with a loom 20 years later and going "Your sweater didn't turn out right? I guess your loom froze!! HAHAHAHA" This is how I feel every time I see this sentiment on Slashdot.
This didn't start out as a troll but it ended up as one
I call bullshit. That is no troll. Mod parent up.
"Yeah, it was a huge blunder for MS to do all the R&D for KDE and Gnome to copy and give away free."
I'm a little disappointed with the negative mods I've recieved on this comment while parent poster got a +5, Funny for an overcooked joke. I guess it's fun to troll against MS until somebody points out the glass house they're living in.
"Derp de derp."
Someone mod parent down, -4 would be appropriate. That link is gross, and not appropriate for children or viewing at work.
" Linus has nothing to do with KDE, vi, Glibc, GCC, Gnome, etc, so fuck off and get back under Billy's desk before you make him angry."
Oh please, we all know you think Linus is the greatest guy to come around since Mitnick.
" and you turn around and respond with the same thing. Copycat! "
Speaking of copycats, you're still using the same old "oh you don't hate MS, so you must be romantically entangled with Bill" joke that nobody ever really found funny. I'm not copying you, it's just a derivitive work of the public domain. Pity you couldn't come up with a real rebuttal.
"Derp de derp."