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Microsoft's "Source Fource" Action Figures
RCanine writes "Microsoft is attempting to curry mind share with the 3-12 age bracket with their new event, the Source Fource, a series of developer-based action figures. Windows Vista Sensei, SQL Server Gal and some lame gender stereotypes presumably seek to rid the world of bearded, katana-wielding evil-doers. From the article: 'Between March 15th and April 15th 2007, the new super dudette will be offered and will be sent to developers who get their act together and attend at least two live MSDN Webcasts or two MSDN Virtual Labs, or one of each.'" I just can't figure out what to make of this, except that I hope someone can tell me if it blends. Or melts. Or burns.
This is a sure sign of the apocalypse...
SQL Server Gal is hot! Is she single?!
They MUST start making some "evil villian" models too. One that looks like RMS. I'll buy a dozen!
But Where is Bob? Or Super-Sweaty Ballmer?
Toil is Stupid. Don't be Stupid.
Let me guess.
Are the nemeses of these characters 'Evil Dr Torvalds' and 'The Jobs Bandit', who are intent on overtaking the world with their clone armies of penguins, platypuses and scary Finder icons?
Those using pirated Tinysoft signatures(TM) are a real threat to society and should all be thrown in jail.
I work at Microsoft. How come I knew this first from /.?</irony>
Let the "you must be new here" comments begin.
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Maybe it's because I'm in my fifties but this seems incomprehensible - but then so does my teenage son's taste in music so maybe I'm just old.
init 11 - for when you need that edge.
Or the dog???
Microsoft is the living proof that Marketing > Quality (as if anybody doubted that). They know that their marketing dept is their most important asset, and they can afford to pour cash at them. Hence their marketing people can afford to try out any wacky ideas and see what sticks.
That's the only explanation I can come up for this initiative. Anything else makes me want to obliterate humanity.
Misleading titles? Inflammatory blurbs? Keep in mind that Slashdot is a tabloid.
The best part is when you click "Watch Them in Action!" and it takes you to a page.
.tv sites really. Does Microsoft utilize any of those freely available options? Oh no, of course not! YouTube is Google! Even if we don't have a competing solution we must not use theirs!
.asx file all you non-Windows users.
... must be his hair. Well, we'll see about that! Put the action figures I've hand crafted here immediately into production! Release plush dolls of clippy! Find me puppies to carry around with me at press conferences and when their cute factor falls below 40%, have them killed and replaced!
Now, a lot of sites have this crazy idea of embedded video that streams from a site or source that's dedicated to streaming video. You know like YouTube, Blip.tv or any of the
So what happens when you click "view"? Well, it creates a popup window that opens up Windows Media Player! Good luck viewing a
The least Microsoft could do is create their own streaming video server but, alas, we must revert to our archaic mentality, reject all that is sensible and invade my privacy and comfort zone by automatically opening a program that is tied to the kernel (and at least historically had admin rights when I didn't) sitting in kernel land on my computer.
Assistant: Mr. Ballmer! Research indicates that Richard Stallman is 50% more cuddly than you!
Ballmer: Damnit
My work here is dung.
Lego needs to call their lawyers.
This has been done and done well. Why the cheap knockoff?
I get that they're toys, and toys are traditionally for kids, and that it's fun to make fun of/hate on Microsoft, and that Microsoft is obviously trying to get people hooked early (did I cover all the bases?).. but these action figures are more collectibles than toys to be played with. This stuff isn't really for kids, it's for your OCD-afflicted nerd that has (hopefully) outgrown Pokemon.
"Windows Vista Sensei is said to possess different strengths and confidence not known to anyone."
That's right, if there ARE strengths to Vista, you can be confident that they're not known to anyone, Microsoft-employed or otherwise! XD
They must be desperate to open up new revenue streams. WIth the continuing failure of Xbox/HPC/Zune et. al. to produce revenue it seems sensible to try something different.... "Hey guys! Action figures!"
When are they going to have the video game and tv series tied to the figures released? What? There aren't any! Once again, MS blows it big time.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
April Fools sure is early this year :/
Is Microsoft's answer to Tux and the Bitten Apple. M$ has never really had a Mascot, and I will bet dollars to donuts that some M$ marketing person had an epiphany that the reason everyone hates M$ was because they didn't have a cute, cuddly mascot or cultural icon.
So, their answer, of course, is to create not one, but LOTS, of cute, cuddly mascots. After all, if one is good, 10 must be better. Right?
But I won't be able to find out if that's really the case because I'm in the UK and, as is usual for such things, it's US only.
At least I won't have to subject my poor brain to two of these hideous MSDN live sessions. Gah.
This can't be real.
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
This is the coolest thing Microsoft has ever done and I'm not having anyone say otherwise!
They're like, ninja developer legomen superheroes!
From the website:
He is highly thought of as one of the most powerful warriors alive. Although he is still young, Windows Vista Sensei is said to possess different strengths and confidence not known to anyone. He is already beginning to gain such world fame at his young age that folks are writing stories about him.
That's quite some selective perception, I can't even believe this is real!!
Am I in a time warp or are the April Fools pranks coming a bit early this year?
for April 1. Would have been a good anti-fools piece.
It looks like Microsoft has been on a marketing rampage of trying to confuse various community project names with its own garbage.
Office Open XML (similar to OpenOffice.org?)
Source Force (SourceForge, anyone?)
Seriously, it's like they're trying to give all these great projects a bad name in the eyes of the ignorant masses who will make the subliminal association in their heads. When all they have is marketing left trying to revive the sinking ship, every problem can be made to look like a marketing one.
Way to be relevant.
that I regret there's no photoshop contests on Slashdot.
I'd see that
Anyone else notice that it's almost March of 2008 now, while the article mentions March of 2007?
Source Fource is from 2006, FFS.
"Linus the Dark Source Lord" version. Everybody knows the evil overlords have more fun.
... wow... simply wow ...
Someone's retarded cousin is apparently head of Microsoft's marketing efforts.
OMG PONIES!
Those using pirated Tinysoft signatures(TM) are a real threat to society and should all be thrown in jail.
This article is from 2007, and these figures were originally released in 2006.
But go ahead and watch the video, if you can. See if they'll at least throw in a time-share condo.
Jesus.. Source Farce to the rescue. Wonder what they were thinking when they thought this up.
feature "Awesome chair-throwing action"! And have a voice button that features 3 different phrases, 'Developers", "Developers", and "Developers"?
Monstar L
.. if I create villians in City of Villians based on these designs, whether Microsoft will clone the Marvel lawsuit.
What the fuck is wrong with Microsoft? Visual Studio 2005 Guy? Is this the result of some Contest to create a character more crappy than Clippy?
Nothing like giving the Marketing people a large vat of "Idea Flavored Jello" and having them hurl fist fulls of it against the wall to see what sticks...
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First is "Virtual Labs Guy" Thank you for sparing me. No really. Oh god, my eyes.
And "Visual Studios Guy" is just plain weird: Is this some attempt at getting in good with those hip kids now-days. Referencing straight edge makes this guy some sort of hardcore Ian Mckay wannabe, in the form of a lame lego? I'm just in a state of confusion as I read this.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. indymedia
If you look on the get the fource page, they first had these in 2006. Your second chance to have your very own MS lackeys was in April of last year.
So the question is, what the hell was somebody looking for on Microsoft's website that they bumped into the Saviors of Monopoly pricing?
What, the, fuck?!
I finally found out who could deal with Vista. A sensei. To use the 10th definition from google define, Sensei is a five piece, melodic, rock band from Jacksonville, Florida. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensei (band).
What is particularly stunning about these is that a non-trivial team of people actually were commissioned to:
- explore possible characters
- depict them
- write detailed commentary
- outsource actual manufacturing, including mold design, painting, packaging
- publish & advertise the promotion
- reserve & fill warehouse space
- ship them
etc.
It's what I've been calling the "SpongeBob Effect": someone actually had to convince deep-pocket high-level managers to fund a team to do this - and got a 'yes'!
Can we get a "-1 Wrong" moderation option?
Apocalypse Ponies, my Little Ponies....
(little girl voice): I'm war pony (flames couch)
(little girl voice): A I am (evil deep voice) DEATH PONY!
google: robot chicken apocalypse pony
They Live, We Sleep
Yeah, the target market is three 12 year olds.
After looking the pictures on the website, I started to wonder if the action figures would work with Legos. Then I remembered are Microsoft products, so I would have to assume no.
(note to any creative people/companies out there: if you designed similarly themed action-hero figures from open-source mascots, I would so buy them.
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With his hands replaced by twin gas powered chainsaws and a face that would make Leatherface vomit, the Microsoft Marketing Maniac is an expert of sowing the seeds of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt amongst Microsoft's competitors. Like Michael Myers, he is known for doing his best work on Halloween, but this blood gorged monster will do his gruesome work year round.
Look out! There he is behind you.... aiieeee!
Concept art stolen from the game Splatterhouse
"MIT betrayed all of its basic principles."
Visual Studio Guy is the Green Lantern, MSDN Webcast Guy is Superman, Virtual Labs Guy is The Flash. I don't see credit on there anywhere, and this is definitely a marketing thing (not a parody).
I think MSDN Webcast Guy's tagline says it best, "His parents weren't very creative."
The Right Reverend K. Reid Wightman,
I don't think it's coincidence that it sounds a lot like SourceForge.
I don't know why, but if I wanted to muddle a name, that's something I'd do: Create something that sounds much like it, is a bit childish and ridiculous, and try to make it popular.
Assorted stuff I do sometimes: Lemuria.org
1. I am a geeky dad of a 8yo boy.
2. I use Linux exclusively.
3. My son -- which could be a Microsoft convert if this thing worked -- cannot watch the videos.
4. Therefore, he is safe from the brainwashing.
5. Profit!!!
It's better to be the foot on the boot than the face on the pavement. ~~ tkx Kadin2048
'nuff said
Thank you Microsoft, for setting your people back 1000 years.
My thoughts exactly. It can't be a coincidence that these figures are supposed to debut between march 15 and april 15...
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
I didn't have enough sleep, or something, to deal with this article. Is it mushroom season in the Pacific Northwest, or what?
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I think the "Microsoft is attempting to curry mind share with the 3-12 age bracket" assessment is way off base. As a joke/toy for adults it's actually pretty funny.
From the story line -
"ISV Super Gal, as persistent as ever, studied and was eventually able to find a way to turn matter into energy
and then back again via an Ultra-Mobile PC running Windows Vista. Shortly there after she left and headed back to main society to continue her studies.
When her friends found out about the device she had created they were amazed as could be."
Yeap - I'm sure many of us would be amazed that she was able to produce anything! (The bold emphasising is mine.)
Still, my kids are NOT going to even know about this - and we love LEGO.
I found the comments on the last two on the bottom of the page rather interesting -- how their "parents" lack creativity.
Hey, Microsoft said it. I didn't.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/hero/sfbio/#msdnwebcastguy
http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/hero/sfbio/#visualstudioguy
Already this is a HUGE FAIL! Where is the "EPIC FAIL" button when you need it! http://wwwfail.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsdn.microsoft.com%2Fevents%2Fhero%2F
"All those moments, will be lost in time...like tears in rain..."
but but but Microsoft hate open source, right from the start have fought against it. Often on ground of protecting their intellectual property. But here they are using some else's intellectual property (lego) claiming to be for open source. WTF! Is this related to publicly showing the horrors that are the old Office formats? Policy change or new mask? While they refuse to play nice with standards and stop vender lock in, I won't believe it. Open the source to current software, like Windows and Office and maybe I would beleive it. It's all cosmetics.
Those little peg people with round heads that we all had in the '80's and lego.
gg microsoft, showing your creative side for once.
Now I can have the XP Fisher-Price theme on my physical desktop, too! Schweet!
I think I speak for everyone here when I say: Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. Over.
dragonhawk@iname.microsoft.com
I do not like Microsoft. Remove them from my email address.
http://www.larryboy.com/
Larry Boy will KICK THESE GUYS/GALS A55!!!
And why shouldn't they. In "The Fib from Outer Space" episode, Larry Boy's sidekick Albert accidentally unplugs the computer just as the answer is arriving. Upon reboot, you see that the CucumberComputer's big happy face is that of a MAC! HA!
What, you guys don't ever code in front of the TV with the kids?
they left out Super BOB! :-(
Why are they called the 'Source' Force?
Is it stupid? Yeah. Is it funny? Yeah. Doesn't it hurt anyone? Please.
Aside from the fact that it's MS there is nothing to see here. Take your boorish trolls elsewhere. Most of the comments here just show why nerds can't get girls... they have too hard of a time not taking themselves so seriously.
I'm nearly at the point of asking why this even made the front page.
Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
Will the Blue Screen of Death defeat the Roundhouse Kick? Dont miss the next episode.
We've got White Guy, Asian Guy, white power-suit chick, asian chick, another white guy, a white guy in a wheelchair, and I'm not sure what Visual Studio Guy is supposed to be. But no black one! C'mon, even South Park knows that much. And right in the middle of Black History Month, too! I'm so mentally distraught. I'm going to sue them for twenty hojillion dollars.
However, I love that webcast guy giving the thumbs-up. I don't know what it is about that little guy, but I think they should make him the boss of the whole crew.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
Some M-80s, some rubber bands, a Bic lighter, and the Source Force. A hell of a good time!
Cantankerous old coot since 1957.
I'm talking Night Court in its fifth season laaaaaaaaaame (cha!)
...because you know Source Fource is out to beat the Penguin.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
Please, could someone borrow me his time machine?
It's gonna be hard to collect those wonderful figures unless I find out how to go back one year.
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Source Fource? Sounds suspiciously similar to Source Forge... Could MS be poking fun at the OSS community , could the lame-ness is sarcastic and intentional ?
Essentia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.
Xerox recently announced a "viral" marketing campaign involving superhero characters that extoll the virtues of solid ink printing. I shit you not.
IncredibleInc
Kineska: Cinema, soapbox, music & musings
LOL are you serious??? I've seen a LOT of sad attempts to woe the little kids into stupid things, but MICROSOFT?
:(
I started using Linux when I was 13, so I guess thats what they are doing. Making sure Microsoft seems like "heros" to kids so they won't use Linux!
I can only imagine what Linux is portrayed as. Most likely a super villain whose hellbent on taking over the world with his uber cool OS
So how many editions are these action figures coming in? Basic, Professional, Premium, etc? Or just one pack of very expensive stuff that you need to upgrade your entire action figure collection to use?
I don't even know how to feel about this. I thought C# was made for VB programmers so the could feel more grown up. I could speak broken English at 3. This is like 12 steps backward.
Can Source Forge perhaps sue Microsoft for infringing on the trademark Sourceforge? (it's at least a closer approximation than Mike Row Soft)
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Will there be a set of villains for the action hero's to battle?
Sorry.
It *must* be April 1.
What about a cute little one?
Of Tux defeating the 4 playfigures of the apocalypse? :-)
dave
Microsoft's Source Farse Action Figures!
Shouldn't the Vista action Figure be much larger, monopolize the screen, and be far less effective?
"Teach a man to build a fire, and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life."
A bit too early for april fools!
Wow. My knick-nack shelf just bluescreened.
The only thing left standing is my stuffed Tux.
Huh?
And in the rules... (again, emphasis mine).
Either this is really really really old news (not unusual - it IS
Maybe they were hoping to gain attention by getting sued over their lame little LEGO-men?
Like all of MS products, these look like choking hazards.
-- Many men would appreciate a woman's mind more if they could fondle it
Now that's innovative, spelling force as fource, because there (whaddya know?) 4 of them in the force (not counting their Amazing Friends, who apparently don't exist as actual physical objects).
I predict a rash of the word "fource" to join "loosing" on the Internets.
I like their FAQ: "What if I miss a superhero in the set?"
Time to kill yourself over this unbearable tragedy.
After reading her back story, I am in fear of SQL Server Gal.
This proves Larrity made Mary marry Dean and procreate.
Mod Karma -1: I sed bad wurds. If I cep my mouf shut, I wud be at riyses.
...because it looks like the riddler is the "architect" behind the MS Source Force!
I believe that means he goes on giving them outsourced jobs to help with their nation's development, suing the evil teachers who can't afford more than 1 software license for the 25 school PCs donated by some guy in the US, and uses his ultimate weapon against poverty: the Badly Crippled Windows Version for only $59.99! The mess he often leaves behind is best cleaned up by the Ubuntu Avenger.
Give Kashyyyk back to the Wookies
I notice that Vista looks a lot like Ken from street fighter.
I always imagined him more like Blob from X-Men
What the hell is a "fource"?
This comic sounds like my job. Fighting off the Pointy Haired Boss who read about Teh Lunix in a magazine and wants to turn our IT infrastructure into a Munich-esque ruin, then combatting the invading hordes of Stallmanistas, clueless 18 year old FOSSies pretending to be in IT, and a mercenary army of Lunix consultants trying to plunder all our company's funds with their excessive fees and fraudulent claims of billable hours.
And let's not even get into the evil GPLv3 trying to seize control of all software ever made.
"... is said to possess different strengths and confidence not known to anyone." You can say that again!
FTA
"The idea of things like SGML and HTML--interchangeable, standardized file formats--didn't really take hold until the Internet made it practical to interchange documents in the first place"
Actually this idea has been around a lot longer then MS Word. It did not com from the age of the internet. ASCII was invented just for this reason. Along the same lines so was EBCDIC.
The ideas have always been there. They just get polluted occasionally.
...has anyone else noticed that Vista Sensei, once teamed up with Office Master, lost all his spellchecking abilities?
Here:
surely that should be "...ready to fight for all who need THEIR help"?
Aaaah... relax parents, you can be safe in the knowledge that your kids are in good hands learning the deficiencies they need to write articles for the literacy-challenged web
Didn't anyone at Microsoft think to READ this before it was put online? hahahahahaaaaahahahahaaaaaaaa!
Super Mr. FUD fights the evil katana-wielding Penguim.
alias possession='chmod 666 satan && ls
nearly a year old being posted? I have the whole set (well, 'cept the very newest one) and we shoot our little foam rockets at them all the time!
Anyone else notice that April 1 is "between March 15th and April 15th"?
It's a Snorlax!
"'Between March 15th and April 15th 2007"
Er, either the year is wrong, or this is old news.
Can I use them as Voodoo dolls? Please???? Can I?? Can I??? Pleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaase?!?!?
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
I have a collection of Super Villains called "Bug Force" that just happens to have the EXACT same characters as "Source Force"!
Do you reckon that they wrote their own 3D software? It looks like complete arse: I'm pretty happy to say that it makes South Park look really sophisticated, you know?
http://xkcd.com/313/
OMG, it's Microsoft's evil plans to pick up kids early using vista by showing how cool it is in action figure form. The cigarette companies did it, now Redmond is doing it :(
It's not just the open source guys who have the best pot.....
The "Trusted Computing Quintuplets" had to be renamed "Source Fource" at the last minute when "HD DVD guy" was trapped in his X-Box and killed by the evil supervillain "Blue Ray Screen of Death" in an unfortunate incident before episode 1 was finished.
I am thinking LEGO may have a potential lawsuit here.....
Insert funny smart-ass comment here.
I think they're funny and cute. Much better than the keychains and coffee mugs one usually gets. It's also tedious and boring, but then, I expect that from all marketing efforts. And it's not like one can expect a game about the average booth babe who is hired solely to recite a speak while wearing a skimpy outfit.
The Crashtastic Four!
(Apologies to Marvel Comics)
As others have commented, this is Old News. The Fantastic Four have been running around MSFT's Tech Ed conference since at least 2006. Here, they're trying unsuccessfully to recruit Wonder Boy in Boston's Fenway Park: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/71/170084610_50babdf659.jpg
I found them charming, literate, and witty, if a little on the quiet side. The four had a professional minder that accompanied them in their quest to save the world during the TE2007 party at Universal Studios Island of Adventure: their nicknames are "Red", "Green", "Yellow", and "Blue".
These little figures have been given away at the last few Tech Eds, and they have a place of honor in our kitchen next to my ultra-rare foam "Nine Guy." My wife gets a kick out of them, struggling and failing to understand how a smiling toy relates to an enterprise-ready relationalo database system. "It's complicated," I explain. :)
-KF
Did anyone else notice in the videos: MSDN Webcast Guy was useless. Visual Studio Guy was a lazy, forgetful person that messes up people's code. SQL Server Gal crashed on arrival then needed to quintuple the number of resources needed for the job. Finally Virtual Labs Guy lost the project.
Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon what's the difference? All steal money from devs and control with walled gardens.
Looks like SQL Server Gal has the female "Standard Issue Triangle" going on. How very 70's of her. Though, it is inverted.
What, me Tweet?
No, not Detroit!
Doo bee, doo bee,do!
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
I once received a very odd gadget/gift from Microsoft. It was a radio/flashlight/compass device. There were numerous problems. First, the flashlight didn't work. The user interface was bewildering in that there was no way to figure out how the damn thing was supposed to be used. Where you would expect to see a tuning dial for the radio, there was a compass instead. How one is a substitute for the other is known only to Microsoft. The radio was strangest of all. No indicator of any kind. If you attached headphones (not included), and pushed a button, the frequency would increase until it got to the next station. If you wanted to go back, you had to hit the reset button and start at the bottom of the FM band. In classic Microsoft fashion, you could visit FM stations ONLY in the order that Microsoft intended, whereas non-MS devices offer fewer restrictions. And from this they built Zune!
Wouldn't it be more appropriate if the funny icon were above the billborg one?
... they have the suspender-wearing Wilford Brimley-type Unix admin from Dilbert.
Never let a lack of data get in the way of a good rant.
Seriously, what the hell is going on with this site?
1st, this was a story from a long time ago.
2nd, even if it was from yesterday, this is not news. This is simply SlashDot posting a story so anti-Microsoft people can hate.
Report news, not your bias. Lately you really have been struggling to post your bias too. This is the second anti-Microsoft story within the past 2 weeks that reports news older than 6 months. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/12/1658249/
Get your act together SlashDot
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Have you ever noticed that Microsoft fans do not find the need to bash Apple every chance they get? Think about it.
I'll try anything once. Twice if it tastes good
What about the OS-tans? ^_^
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Os_tan
http://nijiura.ath.cx/os/
Doesn't April 1st fit in right in the middle there?
Please let this be an April Fool's joke. Pleaseohpleaseohplease.
Get 'em while they're young...
You feel sleepy. Close your eyes. The opinions stated above are yours. You cannot imagine why you ever felt otherwise.
You can say Belgium.
After all, how can people be harmed by something doesn't exist?
[badum-ching]
A Human Right
or from Queen of Wands
um, SQL Server Gal's mouth actually:
Who are these people, anyway, writing about me? I did some investigating, and discovered this pasty, thin little thirty-something sitting at a computer just making stuff up.
Just making stuff up is right. I'll let others comment about the rest of it.
Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.-rms
I wonder if sourceforge.net should get royalties?
"Computers are a lot like Air Conditioners" "They both work great until you start opening Windows"
Butt sex is not limited to homosexual sex! Women have been found to possess butts much as men do. The biggest difference being that when they fart it smells like flowers.
Sometimes my arms bend back.
Or a hint of desperation?
---- Booth was a patriot ----
If these were handed out in March 2007, why should we care?
"Although he is still young, Windows Vista Sensei is said to possess different strengths and confidence not known to anyone." Take out the word "Sensei" and this quite accurate. :-)
Honestly, this sums up everything that is lame about Microsofty Windows and the developers thereof.
Paul Allen- my milk just curled
White Coat guy..
and
Rubber Padded Cells Gal!
Because if they didn't, I expect an opposite army of penguins and demons called "Open Fource" in a matter of months/weeks.
This also calls for a Xbill-like, but 3d fps multiplatform (to attract kids) desktop game.
I want her backstory to involve paring up with her alter ego and equally sexy male figure Postgres to destroy the evil Mi, and end this silly battle once and for all.
I nominate every Microsoft executive for the "Biggest Douchebag in the Universe" award!
That this is a joke.Is April 1st been moved up this year? Vista stinks, after being given Office 2K7 I can honestly say that the GUI is a royal pain,and their answer to the problems at MSFT is F#CKING ACTION FIGURES? WTF? How about showing the customers you car by extending XP until Vista SP2(which will hopefully fix all the major pains,right?) and releasing XP SP3 into retail.I can't stand Vista(and I'm apparently very much not alone) and MSFT needs to do something to show their customers they are listening and on the ball.So far all I've seen is a cutoff date for XP,followed by a really stupid move to buy Yahoo,and now this lame crap.Is there anyone there that even has a brain anymore? As much as I hate to say this,fire the "monkey boy" and bring back Bill.He may have been a "Ruthless Evil Bastard-TM MSFT" but at least Windows worked. As always my 02c,YMMV
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
SQL Server Gal's vag patch is on upside down.
Not in a positive way...
Fight for your digital freedom, join the EFF *now*: http://www.eff.org/support/
Why call it "Source" Force?
MS is continually trying to weaken the various Open Source "brand names"
expandfairuse.org
a TV cartoon show or movie that needs marketing collateral? We always knew that MS has it's own bass-ackwards way of doing things, but . . . they really pulled a Hillary on this one.
Tech Public Policy stuff
First it was "Shared Source" to confuse people away from "Open Source."
Then it was "Office Open XML" to confuse people away from "Open Office."
Now it's "Source Fource" to confuse people away from "Source Forge."
Mark my words, Microsoft is about to introduce its own on-line Source Forge direct competitor.
They are obviously copying the QNX developer attraction marketing ploy. http://www.thepocketgeek.com/
I read the script, and I think it would help my character's motivation if he was on fire. -Bender
I just did a quick count of all the 'funny' modded posts above yours and there are over 50 at time of writing. Most the posts in this thread are humorous, what are you on about?
The triangle on SQL Server Gal is upside down. I don't know of any woman who has it that way... I don't even think it's possible!
This is what their R&D produces? What a pathetic company. No wonder their shit sucks.
Though there are yet no complete set of os-tan-like for all Microsoft products
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-tan
Just when you think you've seen the most horrific examples of the diseased collective mind of the human race, Microsoft steps up to the plate and puts one out of the park!
There is no circle of hell deep enough to contain the evil behind *this*.
**Yahoo Zombie Guy®**
Recent Super Deed
Rising from the dead. What? That's pretty frickin impressive! Have you ever risen from the dead? I didn't think so. Shut up, Netscape, or Windows Vista Sensei will kill you again in the tradition of his ancestors.
Occupation
Eating the brains of its users, and infecting them with the same viral marketing ads that we enjoy on MSN sites.
Work History
Started out life as a supposed "do-gooder," showing the lost and clueless denizens of the Internet how to get around and communicate. Lost its way though when it fell in with a bad crowd of "Free Software" hooligans who sat around drinking free beer or something. Found its true calling in the afterlife, redirecting wayward computer users back to the Microsoft homestead.
Favorite Food
Braaaaaiiiinnnss....
Favorite Band
No longer listens to music.
Thing About It That Would Surprise Most People
Purple is its favorite color. No, really. Seriously. That's the color its user's faces turn as it eats their brains.
Favorite Pet
No pets... it devoured them all and has now become Microsoft's pet.
Worst Fear
That the number 1 search term on Yahoo is "Google"
I am so very relieved.
(Unless they are just trying to lull uns into a false sense of security....)
*checks under the bed*
Crap. What did the new CSS do with the "Post anonymously" option??
http://blogs.technet.com/hhh_comic">heros happen here is just as bad ... and possibly worse
But where is the Vista action figure's wheelchair? Accessories are very important and he will need it to support his incredible bloat.
The message is clear.
The developper is a big dope and will never complete his project.
You can't do anything right without Microsoft products,
Microsoft training and Microsoft consulting.
So if you try anything without Microsoft, you will fail.
BOY! I'LL CALL MICROSOFT NOW AND SEND THEM ALL MY MONEY!
HELP ME MICROSOFT!!! HELP ME!!! I'M SO DUMB AND HELPLESS!!!
Got $5.00????... She gives a great blow job, but be sure and double rubber. Didn't you notice the sores around her mouth.