Microsoft
I couldn't thing of anything today so here is a funny article.
Sources inside Microsoft say that a secret search is on for two
letters that are cooler in combination than X and P.
"When we named NT, we didn't even consider the "cool" factor--we just
got lucky." "Of course, we learned our lesson naming Windows after the calendar year. Sure, that worked in the nineties, but what were we going to
call XP, ought two?" "Windows Me was, of course, a compromise. When The Bill decided that
NT 5 would be called Windows 2000, we were left high and dry on a name
for the Y2K edition of Windows 98. 'Millenium Edition' just sort of
fell out of the process and we went with it. Nobody was entirely happy
with it." "But we really upped the anty with XP--it was the zeitgeist of 2002.
There may be no cooler pair of letters, except perhaps XL, which we
obviously can't use." "We've been playing with some combinations, you know, things like GT,
VX, TR, SL, and so on. But we're not there yet. There's 676
combinations, and we're considering everyone of them. Except FU. So
that's 675 combinations that we're considering. And PU, that's not
going to make the cut. So 674."
Sources inside Microsoft say that a secret search is on for two
letters that are cooler in combination than X and P.
"When we named NT, we didn't even consider the "cool" factor--we just
got lucky." "Of course, we learned our lesson naming Windows after the calendar year. Sure, that worked in the nineties, but what were we going to
call XP, ought two?" "Windows Me was, of course, a compromise. When The Bill decided that
NT 5 would be called Windows 2000, we were left high and dry on a name
for the Y2K edition of Windows 98. 'Millenium Edition' just sort of
fell out of the process and we went with it. Nobody was entirely happy
with it." "But we really upped the anty with XP--it was the zeitgeist of 2002.
There may be no cooler pair of letters, except perhaps XL, which we
obviously can't use." "We've been playing with some combinations, you know, things like GT,
VX, TR, SL, and so on. But we're not there yet. There's 676
combinations, and we're considering everyone of them. Except FU. So
that's 675 combinations that we're considering. And PU, that's not
going to make the cut. So 674."
posted by lordsteven at 5:55:00 PM
4 Comments:
Steven,
The article wasn't funny, it was boring. I like your own thoughts and writings much better than dumb windows stories. Mac stories are the only ones that will suffice.
STILL BORING! Write something else!
steve,
Odd article. It adds confidence in Microsoft doesn't it? Glad to see they spend so much time thinking up a name and figuring out how many two letter combinations there are in the alphabet. Wow.
Dashing
what is witts end?
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