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- proper noun slang, derogatory
Microsoft
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Examples
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Of course, being in my younger years at the time, this consisted of a series of appallingly immature and impotent oppositions, such as adding a disclaimer to the bottom of my first web site declaring that performance could not be guaranteed if it was viewed with “Micro$oft Internet Exploder”.
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WIser head saw where that one was going, and Micro$oft buckled (but I don't know of any sane person that accepts M$ "Java"; we insist that people load up Sun Java).
Balkinization 2007
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But if you want "bad decisions" by Micro$oft, if you've got a couple weeks, I've got plenty .....
Balkinization 2007
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But if you want "bad decisions" by Micro$oft, if you've got a couple weeks, I've got plenty .....
Balkinization 2007
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WIser head saw where that one was going, and Micro$oft buckled (but I don't know of any sane person that accepts M$ "Java"; we insist that people load up Sun Java).
Balkinization 2007
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I saw once that a Micro$oft response to a bug that crashed their system after 40 days or so up was: You're lucky if you haven't BSODed for forty days.
Balkinization 2007
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It's not as though using dollar signs is fooling anybody although it does remind one handily of the people who think it's clever to write "Micro$oft".
Voting Update: This One's For John Jen 2009
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Then they [Micro$oft] never, ever try to fight the new technology.
Balkinization 2007
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Then they [Micro$oft] never, ever try to fight the new technology.
Balkinization 2007
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I saw once that a Micro$oft response to a bug that crashed their system after 40 days or so up was: You're lucky if you haven't BSODed for forty days.
Balkinization 2007
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