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Microsoft PR: Looking Under The Hood

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the leave-that-tracking-info-in-remember dept.

mtr writes "An interesting article uncovering some embarassing and amusing PR practices of our friendly software giant had been recently published by Michael Zalewski. The author recovered change tracking information from all the DOCs published on microsoft.com, and came up with something to cheer you up. It's funny when it happens to others - but even better if it fires back on themselves. Read the full story here."

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  1. Re:Embarassing not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Um, isn't '=' an assignment operator?

    Only in braindead C-derived languages that like to do everything possible to maximise the probability of programmers making silly mistakes that take hours to track down.

    In any sensible language it's an equivalence operator.