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Microsoft Using .MS TLD

Posted by kdawson on from the step-right-up dept.

mqudsi writes "Microsoft is using the .MS top-level domain, assigned to the Caribbean island of Montserrat, for its Web 2.0-flavored Popfly project. You can get your own .MS name if you really want to — there are no restrictions on foreign ownership — at $180 US for 2 years. As of this writing microsoft.ms is available." In an obliquely related note, TechBlorge has up a rumination on the resemblance of the Popfly logo to Tux.

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  1. OMG PONIES by QuantumG · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tag: SlowNewsDay

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  2. is bluescreenofdeath.ms available? by ip_freely_2000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I want the most active domain in the ms tld.

    1. Re:is bluescreenofdeath.ms available? by skribe · · Score: 5, Funny

      proble.ms

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    2. Re:is bluescreenofdeath.ms available? by evilviper · · Score: 4, Funny

      I prefer:

        aneurys.ms
        ar.ms
        bathroo.ms
        chas.ms
        clai.ms
        condo.ms
        cra.ms
        criticis.ms
        darkroo.ms
        db.ms
        doldru.ms
        doo.ms
        fanto.ms
        flimfla.ms
        ger.ms
        googleis.ms
        mosle.ms
        oh.ms
        sca.ms
        screa.ms
        scrotu.ms
        sha.ms
        slu.ms
        squir.ms
        stor.ms
        swar.ms
        syste.ms
        underperfor.ms
        v.ms
        victi.ms
        wor.ms

        and, of course: acrony.ms

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    3. Re:is bluescreenofdeath.ms available? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Can't believe no one has mentioned R.ms yet.

    4. Re:is bluescreenofdeath.ms available? by QuickFox · · Score: 5, Funny

      Its our's no'w! W'e wont giv'e i't bac'k! H'a!

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  3. Another Good One by tehwebguy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone get ComicSans.MS

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  4. how about by AresTheImpaler · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://i.hate.ms/

    That way it really looks Web 2.0!! yay..

  5. resemblance? by crossmr · · Score: 4, Funny

    They're cute birds... wow..anyone who has a cute bird as a logo is ripping off linux?

    First of all, they obviously look similar
    really? huh.. you know you're right. If someone hadn't pointed out it was the popfly website, I would have swore I was at a linux site.
    The resemblance is damn near perfect. I like the way the pink really brings out the black and white....
    this is beyond slow news day.

  6. or... by Ariastis · · Score: 5, Funny

    linuxsavedmefrom.ms

  7. Re:That'll make you cringe by hobo+sapiens · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey, did you laugh at the pictures like I did?

    One was the obligatory girl. She probably did design work. Not that she couldn't code circles around the guys and all, but you know, gotta keep up appearances.

    There were three guys on there, I swear, I saw them on NBC's To Catch A Predator getting arrested. It's good microsoft hires ex-cons. Keeps em off the streets.

    Sloth from Goonies evidently works there now. Good for him. I'll bet he eats a LOT of Baby Ruths.

    There were plenty of forgettable, dorky white guys who, together, probably own every D&D and Warhammer piece ever made.

    Finally, the project lead was surely the guy on top (of the pyramid, you perverts!). I guess I have worked on enough projects to know.

    *Sigh*

    Well, what do you know? popfly.ms IS good for something! It amused me for ten minutes.

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  8. I'm calling dibs on.. by katterjohn · · Score: 3, Funny

    nudewebca.ms

  9. Let's start a pool... by grcumb · · Score: 5, Funny

    How long before rectu.ms points to goatse?

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  10. Re:Popfly? by bmo · · Score: 5, Funny

    "That's nine managers and six developers. No wonder the team "hustles for resources." They're probably going broke paying management wages to sixty percent of the staff. It says three more people aren't pictured -- we can bet that two of them are more managers."

    Three lions escape from the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle.

    They decide to split up, to improve the chances that they won't all be caught all at once, and agree to meet three months later to compare notes.

    So three months pass by and they all meet. Two of the lions are all skin and bone. One is shaking, he says "I ate one kid at a school and they chased me into the woods. I had to live on voles, shrews, and the occasional mountain biker...stringy, they are." The second lion, also skinny, said "I ate a cop, and they chased me 'round the city and I wound up having to climb up Mt. Ranier and all I could find to eat was squirrels."

    So the two look at the third lion and ask why he's so fat and happy:

    "I hid in the bushes next to Microsoft's main entrance. I ate a manager a day and nobody noticed."

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  11. Re:Could this be... by carpe_noctem · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, but the dupe of this article next week will be...

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