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Microspotting: Inside the Microsoft Archives
jones_supa writes to point out a video tour in which long-time company archivist Amy Stevenson takes us behind the scenes of the Microsoft Archives, a collection of artifacts that preserve the company's history and culture. "There, you'll find decades worth of Microsoft software, advertisements, documentation, memorabilia and...skulls? You'll just have to watch to understand. Some of the scariest items include a life-like Bill Gates doll (wearing a jogging suit), sent by a Russian doll artist, and a human-sized Clippy costume."
... that the borg keep archives.
A multi-billion dollar corporation has creepy stuff in their secret lair?
And it is used to promoted company "culture"?
Call me when you find a giant company that doesn't do this.
- Nec Impar Pluribus, or so I'm told.
I wonder how many of those were in the wild?
I still have my original Windows 1.0 disks (5-1/4" floppies) that I could start my own Wondoze archive with... Bwaaaaaaaa!
It was scary seeing it in Office and scary seeing it in the video!
. . . when they sat in the bubble-wrapped chairs and the interviewer asked about the chairs' significance, I seriously assumed the archivist was gonna say one of them was the one that Ballmer threw whilst ranting about Google.
>and a human-sized Clippy costume
the horror! just imagine if one of those made it to the real world.
at least the archives is doing humanity something good.
I expected to see a sled at some point.
It looks like you're trying to move. Would you like help with that?
o Get me out of this suit!
o Just let me have some limb movement...
[] Don't show me this tip again.
If you gave me a choice between a printer and a giraffe with explosive diarrhoea, i'll get my ladder and my raincoat
No, I really don't. That's what the summaries are for.
Just... ew.
Yeah, I know what you mean. Its sickening how sycophantic Slashdot is to Microsoft now.
Dice should just come out, drop the pretence that its FOSS-friendly, and admit it's been bought and paid for by Microsoft, Apple. Oracle etc.
Waah waah. I submitted the article exactly to balance out the FOSS-heavy stream on news on Slashdot. I like and use OSS too but it's healthy to see all the sides of the world and what's happening in IT world in general. News for nerds, stuff that matters -- isn't that the baseline?
It sounds like a voodoo doll. Was it full of pins?
WHY? OH WHY?
I'd go on a Vegan diet but the delivery time from Vega is too long. --brownkitty
Imagine something like a
human-sized Clippy costume.
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" it's healthy to see all the sides of the world and what's happening in IT "
Isn't that how sexually transmitted diseases got started?
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
Isn't that how sexually transmitted diseases got started?
Now you know why Richard Stallman has never had sex.
...I want it !!! I want it bad !!!
Did they include these files ..
/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org
Index of
Comes v. Microsoft Homepage
that's why he eats toe-jam. it keeps the ladies away.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
Wow, the interviewer was a real jackass. Instead of asking pointed questions he just made stupid jokes, a la David Pogue.
Silverlight crashed while I was watching this. I can't stop laughing.
Every rule has more than one consequence.