Fun joke at Sony's expense but it's going to spectacularly backfire when Microsoft inevitably announces that the next Xbox won't support physical discs.

Initially I thought this was a useless/dumb idea.

On reflection, I like it - it's weird. Old internet weird. Like someone with a couple hundred bucks and some time on their hands wants to do something they think is fun or funny... it feels human. I think we need more of this. Extra points for using a sketchy o365 form that looks like a scam.

> Supplies are limited, and the first 1,000 eligible submissions will receive one. Limit one per person. Availability may be limited by country or region.

This seems quite limited to be a real product, but also quite a lot for seemingly what’s just a joke to mock Sony for ceasing blu-ray production.

It’s worth mentioning that github does (did?) do some cool stuff with physical media archiving of code like the arctic project [1], but these CDs are burned, not pressed so they’ll only last around 10 years

[1]: https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault

1/2” open reel magnetic tape please or GTFO.

This looks like some very finely crafted phishing.

One Linux kernel please, the 87320be9f0d24fce67631b7eef919f0b79c3e45c vintage

For those that missed it, Sony announced that Playstation will no longer support physical media. This is Microsoft ribbing them.

Is this a real Microsoft site, or just a form created by anyone trying to collect e-mail addresses and phone numbers to steal accounts?

Shame for the limited time offer, otherwise I'd remember this the next time githubstatus.com goes red!

This feels like a tongue-in-cheek joke about playstation going diskless

Bold of them to call out another company when they haven't been doing well in the court of public opinion themselves lately.

This seems like a wonderful way to get folk's private info. What's next, a Google Form offering to download your Gmail?

I'd settle for one day without a SEV.

Good time to still have a CD burner sitting around, business opportunities everywhere!

Want your 200gb game shipped on 300-400 CDs? Just pay postage & handling ;)

So they are only going to "sell" 1000 physical discs before throwing in the towel and going back to all digital? Honestly this is worse than Sony. They should charge a fair price and continue to offer the service for people who don't have strong enough internet to checkout large repos.

I requested the code for Anubis, I'll keep you all updated on what I get!

Is this just a guise to get people to hand over their contact information? So it can be linked and associated with a GitHub profile?

It's presented as an official Microsoft product (the link), but it's just a random public-facing form hosted on Microsoft Forms from Joe Schmoe.

Why not on floppy disks.

I'll take Windows95 on 3.5" floppy discs please. Thank you.

> Offer valid from July 2, 2026 to July 6, 2026.

Microsoft discontinuing physical copies after in one week

Awesome! It is indeed a marvelous merchandize concept! An effortful work of ingenious ideas and great history... sealed in a iridescent CD and signed by a supportive holder of it on public...

Thank you, for an awesome, relatively ingenious idea to preserve the history and highlight its significance in a human history, the love for discoveries and cooperation...

I love it...

This is a wrong move on so many levels.