| ▲ | ralferoo 8 hours ago |
| Hehe, this reminds me of 30 years ago when people used to stylise it as Micro$oft or creatively misspell it as Microshaft, etc. Even on the Amiga, there was the filesystem that could read PC format disks that was called MessyDos. It just seems like the next generation has discovered what an easy name it is to make puns from. |
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| ▲ | athenot 30 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| One of my favorites being Micros~1, in reference to how Windows had to mangle file names for DOS's 8+3 character limit. |
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| ▲ | Lammy 14 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| “i'll spell it MICRO$LOTH WINBLOWS in a DELICIOUS TWIST” https://leisuretown.com/library/qac/25.jpg |
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| ▲ | st_goliath 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If you're German-speaking: "Klopilot" and "Vibrierkot" are some modern day personal favorites. On a similar, nostalgic note, I recall boot screens for "Sinnlos 98" floating around, back when modifying the bootup logo was a thing. |
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| ▲ | AndyPa32 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | There are regions in Germany (Hessen) where "Azure" is pronounced the exact same way as "Ärger" (trouble). Makes you think... | | |
| ▲ | ThreeFx 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Wow, that's incredible. Even though I'm from Hessen, I never thought of making that connection! | | |
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| ▲ | froh42 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Ok, Vibrierkot is something for the German shitpost communities with all my Zuhausis im Zwischennetz. | |
| ▲ | PunchyHamster 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > Klopilot funnily enough works just fine in Polish | | | |
| ▲ | defjm 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | You made me laugh, thanks. | |
| ▲ | p0w3n3d 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | As a Polish man I love Klopilot <3 | |
| ▲ | adornKey 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | "Der Ätsch-Browser". | |
| ▲ | croes 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Don’t forget Kleinweich | |
| ▲ | lowdownbutter 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Maybe you can explain it for we non German speakers. | | |
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| ▲ | dec0dedab0de 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I used M$ at work the other day by accident, I was like ooh wait this isn't turn of the century slashdot. |
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| ▲ | bombcar 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | From my parent's home in Wyoming I stab at thee! https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/22/m | | |
| ▲ | Anthony-G 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I find it interesting to go back in time so I read the accompanying article and came across this snippet: > despite the computing apocalypse that Windows XP's Product Activation features were supposed to ignite, I've never had the first problem with it At the time, I remember a lot of scare stories about how the Product Activation system in Windows XP would result in the death of user freedom. It didn’t effect me because I was using GNU/Linux (probably Mandrake or Mandriva Linux). When I later got a job in an office that ran Windows XP, I don’t remember XP causing any more headaches than any of its predecessors. If anything, it was even more stable than 2000 which itself was superior to 95, 98 or 98SE. I also fully agree with the last sentence: > I do think it's clear that the way we use our computers totally pisses off gigantic, wealthy companies of all stripes, and it was only a matter of time until they tried to do something about it. | | |
| ▲ | bombcar 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Part of it was that Microsoft was really more concerned with distributors selling computers with pirated copies of Windows, and they basically would activate anything if you were willing to call. I remember doing it a few times for the "OEM" Windows XP which was cheaper but not supposed to migrate to new machines. | | |
| ▲ | Anthony-G 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Thanks for that bit of background. That make sense. I used to think that MS were probably happy with a certain amount of “piracy” (students, voluntary groups, people starting off as self-employed contractors, etc.) because it kept people in their ecosystem (using MS Office and other Windows-only software), helped reinforce the perception of Windows as being the OS for getting stuff done (either work or games) and some of these “pirates” would become future (paying) customers. | | |
| ▲ | bombcar an hour ago | parent [-] | | They really were - the biggest things were companies selling PCs with pirated software on them, and larger businesses buying one copy for everyone (where the fabled and famous audits came from). MS was never as big a stickler as Oracle in that regard. Of course, if you were an avowed pirate, nothing even slowed you down. |
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| ▲ | sfjailbird an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Lol, I was thinking about that comic just yesterday, what a coincidence. "As you have no doubt been monitoring my communications for quite some time!" read in the voice of the pharmacy owner from Family Guy. |
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| ▲ | zem an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | there was an old humour piece on /. about how their name appeared so many times in their products that it took up a significant amount of space, so they were remaining themselves "moft" to save five bytes per instance. for some reason that stuck with me, I still find myself randomly thinking of them as moft every now and then. |
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| ▲ | wasting_time 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| MS-DOS itself is derived from QDOS, which stands for "Quick and Dirty Operating System". Things only went downhill from there. |
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| ▲ | riffraff 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Last week on a comedy show (the daily show) they made a joke about bill gates "micro and soft" which was old in the 90s already, so I can confirm this is the case. |
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| ▲ | dylan604 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I think this was 100% justifiable use. If the founder of the company is going to be hanging out with pedophiles and sex traffickers, then micro and soft jokes are open season. All of his philanthropic adventures will never wipe his stain clean. | |
| ▲ | mikkupikku 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I've always said it was in bad taste for Bill Gates to name the company after his johnson. |
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| ▲ | wincy 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Orgs have had sensitive skin like this for a long time. Gamespy was a service for launching and playing multiplayer games with lobbies before Steam, and if you “accidentally” typed “GaySpy” (it was the early 2000s) it would autocorrect to “GameSpy” by the time it appeared in your messages. |
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| ▲ | henriquecm8 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| In Brazil people used to say "Ruindows", which is a play with the portuguese word for bad. |
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| ▲ | fluoridation 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Don't forget Windoze. |
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| ▲ | Seb-C 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | In french we have Windaube (pronunced Windob). Daube is a slang word for something of low quality. | | |
| ▲ | pjerem 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Daube is a slang word for something of low quality. Which is fun because it's also a really delicious dish from Provence (south of France) made with beef that has been marinated for multiple hours in red wine. |
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| ▲ | ddtaylor 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Don't forget Winblows | | |
| ▲ | lelanthran 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Another oldie "If you play the Win98 CD backwards, it summons Satan. It's worse when you play it forwards - it installs Windows" Ah, good times... :-) | | |
| ▲ | badocr 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I have a "quotes.txt" from slashdot days with some MS jabs in it: > Last week, I left my 2 XP CDs on my dashboard in plain view. Someone broke into my car and left 2 more. > The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they make a vacuum cleaner. > A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer is to computing what a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to fine cuisine Juvenile some might say, but they still makes me giggle. | |
| ▲ | jackdoe 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I had to reinstall win98 so many times I still remember the pirate key k4hvdq9tj96crx9c9g68rq2d3 by heart good times :) | | |
| ▲ | ValentineC 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | I guess I was more of the FCKGW generation. :) | | |
| ▲ | deltoidmaximus 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | IIRC with Windows 98 you could just use any product key you had on as many machines as you wanted since there was no activation or real phoning home capabilities. So most likely your whole friend group would be using the same serial that was copied off your uncle's old gateway. | |
| ▲ | Tade0 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Ah, FuCK Gates, William. I think there were at least three other commonly used codes, but this one was by far the most popular. | | |
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| ▲ | riddley 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Outbreak Express! | | |
| ▲ | bitwize 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | It was "Outhouse Express" and "GruntPage" for me in the late 90s. I still use these for software I find particularly irksome, for example Conscrewence from AtlASSian. |
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| ▲ | craftkiller 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It was always "Microshit" to me |
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| ▲ | infinityplus1 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Internet exploder | | | |
| ▲ | sensanaty 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I always like Wangblows | |
| ▲ | gambiting 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | In Polish we used to say "Winzgroza" (win terror) | |
| ▲ | dariosalvi78 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | in Italy it was WinZozz (zozzo = dirty) |
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| ▲ | robotnikman 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I'm starting to use Micro$lop now |
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| ▲ | BrtByte 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Every dominant tech company eventually gets the nickname treatment |
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| ▲ | pjmlp 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I used to have a M$ email signature 30 years ago, and pay, nowaydays I mostly use Windows on my laptop, because I am not willing to pay Apple prices even though I can afford them, and even last year I was dealing with GNU/Linux installation issues on a Gigabyte BRIX. |
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| ▲ | bitwize 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| My favorite nickname for MS-DOS is "Domestos" (pronounced /də ˈmɛs ˌtɒs/) which is a brand of bathroom cleanee from the UK. |
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| ▲ | 2b3a51 20 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Keep the windows open when using Vim on a Domes-Tos system. [Domestos is a brand name for bleach, and Vim is a scouring powder that was popular decades ago] |
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| ▲ | ToucanLoucan 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Been in this industry since I graduated college, I have never stopped using Micro$oft or Microshaft. Also a fan of M$, Winblows… Thank goodness their employees have time to crack down on people making fun of them on fucking Discord. That should definitely be the priority of a multi-trillion dollar software company, is making sure your users aren’t mocking you. We don’t need a taskbar that works reliably or anything. |
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| ▲ | intothemild 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Microscope Winblows |
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