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Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)

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Re: Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)

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Post by Grombobulous »

mawax wrote: post #99
Grombobulous wrote: post #86

I’ve never heard these criticisms about Windows before. My challenge to the author would be to address the much more serious criticisms of Windows that have been frustrating real users and have been left unresolved. Address the forced Microsoft login in Windows 11. Even walled garden Apple doesn’t force that in their desktop OS. Address the pre-installed junkware games that plagued Windows 10. Address the Bing and Ed…

(2003)

My mistake. I am not sure that the 2003 tag was on the title when I commented, but I should have seen it in the blog itself.

That said, Microsoft was even more of a danger to the industry in 2003, and it was far more of a monopolist. Here he was basically downplaying government scrutiny of Microsoft at the height of their antitrust allegations. I could have made my point more compelling had I realized this came out in 2003.

Re: Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)

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Post by [deleted] »

JensenTorp wrote: post #95
Grombobulous wrote: post #86

I’ve never heard these criticisms about Windows before. My challenge to the author would be to address the much more serious criticisms of Windows that have been frustrating real users and have been left unresolved. Address the forced Microsoft login in Windows 11. Even walled garden Apple doesn’t force that in their desktop OS. Address the pre-installed junkware games that plagued Windows 10. Address the Bing and Ed…

give it a rest eh

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Re: Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)

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Post by butlike »

bluedino wrote: post #49
stefs wrote: post #27

years ago my father got a decomissioned, wiped clean notebook from work and asked me to set it up for him. i didn't want to shell out a hundred bucks for windows, so i suggested trying linux (ubuntu) and he agreed. "intrepid ibex" was installed without issues. a few weeks later i asked him if everything was ok and how he liked it, and he had no complaints, except one: he didn't like the edgy skull on the desktop wall…

One of the earlier releases (when they would send you free CD's) got flack for people in their underwear https://www.zdnet.com/article/canonical-turns-20-shaping-the...

Dang, I have a box of those somewhere. You could just order, for free (and shipping iirc), BOXES of however many you wanted.

Re: Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)

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Post by fwip »

walrus01 wrote: post #84
ricudis wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Though now it's long buried in internet folklore graveyard, there once was a popular shock image (and an associated website) called "goatse". (If you never heard of it, you better NOT google it). For awhile, people had been spotting goatse in several logos.

Better question is why was the goatse guy wearing a wedding ring.

Well, he was probably married.

Re: Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)

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Post by karolinepauls »

bluedino wrote: post #49
stefs wrote: post #27

years ago my father got a decomissioned, wiped clean notebook from work and asked me to set it up for him. i didn't want to shell out a hundred bucks for windows, so i suggested trying linux (ubuntu) and he agreed. "intrepid ibex" was installed without issues. a few weeks later i asked him if everything was ok and how he liked it, and he had no complaints, except one: he didn't like the edgy skull on the desktop wall…

One of the earlier releases (when they would send you free CD's) got flack for people in their underwear https://www.zdnet.com/article/canonical-turns-20-shaping-the...

This is completely off topic but I'm shocked that zdnet autoplayed a video with audio on after I opened the page and scrolled down a little. Incredible that we still have websites whose primary purpose isn't playing audio automatically play audio. There's no way this doesn't annoy a vast majority of users.

This phenomenon terrifies me greatly - how large organisations can be ignorant of the basics of their purpose. I believe it is one and the same mechanism of collective incompetence, which can affect both a media company, a school, or a government. It's as if the humanity, under any system, were bound to create inhospitable conditions for one another.

Re: Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)

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Post by kmoser »

blkhawk wrote: post #58

I find it worrying because being super sensitive to stuff like that is usually red flag that the person is kinda into it - Senators in Bathroom stalls and all that (bonus if you get the reference). But I think the person who directly contacted Microsoft about this was probably not the person who noticed it and brought it up on the Government side just the Person who was tasked with communicating about it so its good…

The article states that it was the government who remained nameless, not the person who brought it to Microsoft.

Given that this request was not related to national security, they really should publish the name.

Re: Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)

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Post by goodmythical »

Jenk wrote: post #51
bluedino wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the earlier releases (when they would send you free CD's) got flack for people in their underwear https://www.zdnet.com/article/canonical-turns-20-shaping-the...

Well, the Ubuntu logo has suddenly clicked. How did I not see it before?!

Makes sense with the whole "Ubuntu is sometimes translated as "I am because we are" thing as well

Re: Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)

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Post by cheraderama »

bradrn wrote: post #78
DonHopkins wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least you didn't install BSD! https://halfblog.net/2011/12/04/daemon-worship/ >I just got a call from the owner of a hotel for which we provide hotspot service. She says that a guest spotted the “Powered by FreeBSD” logo at the bottom of the login page, and was offended; the guest was convinced that either we or the hotel management “worshipped the Devil” and refused to stay at the hotel unless the logo was remove…

Reminds me of this classic: https://web.archive.org/web/20010803131841/http://www.lemis.... > ``Pardon us, ma'am. Mind if we ask you a question?'' > Well, people keep telling me that Texans are real friendly, so I nodded. > ``Are you a Satanist?'' > Well, at least they didn't ask me if I liked to party. > ``Uh, no, I can't say that I am.'' > ``Gee, ma'am. Are you sure about that?'' they asked. > I put on my biggest,…

Why does this post (2026) link to a wayback-machined page quoting an email (1996) saying >Sherman, set the Wayback Machine for around 1976

Three dates ending in 6... 666... What is this Satanic inception?

Re: Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)

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Post by MBCook »

kmoser wrote: post #107
blkhawk wrote: post #58

I find it worrying because being super sensitive to stuff like that is usually red flag that the person is kinda into it - Senators in Bathroom stalls and all that (bonus if you get the reference). But I think the person who directly contacted Microsoft about this was probably not the person who noticed it and brought it up on the Government side just the Person who was tasked with communicating about it so its good…

The article states that it was the government who remained nameless, not the person who brought it to Microsoft. Given that this request was not related to national security, they really should publish the name.

I think they mean it was someone in the government who complained and that complaint went to their IT department, and it was the poor IT department who had to complain to Microsoft.

Or something like that. Basically, the person from the government who contacted them was the sad messenger and not the original complainer.

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