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Microsoft mercifully puts an end to April Fools' Day gags
- maimeowmeow 7y agoApril fools, Microsoft is a very hip company. /s
- mc32 7y agoWhile I totally agree with this, I think it’s none the less an example of becoming just another part of the economy rather than being s special part of the economy. I.e. tech is mainstream and diffuse and not as niche as it used to be in its own economic orbit.
- badsavage 7y agoAnother thing Microsoft tries to ruin
- russh 7y agoI usually avoid the Internet on April 1.
- KingMachiavelli 7y agoThe really simple solution is to only have the gag for non- corporate accounts. Then again a lot of people (myself included) use their personal email for buisness. Yet people also use non-domain windows licenses for buisness use and get angry when updates are automatically installed. I think this is just part of the trend of tech companies becoming more corporate and traditional as expectations increase.
- stuaxo 7y agoCorporations hate things that make us human, humour, ambiguity, sex and emotion. Unless they are monetising them.
- jdsully 7y agoFun in tech really died when they killed off the Easter Eggs. Excel used to have its own embedded flight simulator and engineers got a place to sign their names. In XL95 it was the Hall of Tortured Souls, a Doom like room you could explore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK0M74E8PS4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK0M74E8PS4