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Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by sn_master »

Impossible wrote: post #104
sn_master wrote: post #25

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Does it? I hardly see any news about Microsoft in 'tech' press anymore.

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced a big military contract for Hololens. Before that, they announced a Discord acquisition, before that finalized Bethesda acquisition, etc. You're right that it might be my bias (I work in games, game engine and XR, not web), but all of those were reported by tech media like The Verge and mainstream publications tech reporting, not gaming or niche VR sites.

Yup, I especially like the HoloLens and the Pentagon contracts. Those are things that Google would have easily taken with Google Lens (which they are already selling to the industrial applications) and GCP, but can't due to the internal political pressure groups from employees preventing them from doing government contracts.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by laurent92 »

JoshTko wrote: post #145
mmmmmbop wrote: post #89

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I'm seriously confused by the backlash to the Voltswagen stunt. The first thing I thought when I read the headline was that this was obviously an early April fool's day joke. Perhaps people are just upset that they didn't get it and are blaming Volkswagen to avoid admitting that they were a bit too gullible around April 1st.

VW's main mistake is that their joke was something some people actually really liked. It burns a ton of goodwill. Many of their supporters may have even defended the idea. Now VW effectively told their supporters that VW thinks they are idiots.

Their mistake was probably to hit “Send” by mistake 1 day too early in their PR machine.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by juotlrjrb »

addicted wrote: post #143
hedora wrote: post #72

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It is difficult to prove intent, especially if the press release is absurd, released on April 1st, and you’re attempting to prove it wasn’t intended as a prank. Having said that, I’m holding a bag of SO stock because I thought they really were going to start monetizing by charging for copy-paste. /s

Why do you think the SEC has to prove intent, or even that it being a prank, even if you prove that, protects you?

> When it comes to being charged with fraud, demonstrating that the defendant lacked the intent to commit a crime (i.e. that he or she acted in good faith) is a key defense because, in order to convict the defendant, the prosecutor needs to prove that he or she had fraudulent intent.

https://www.baezlawfirm.com/two-recent-cases-highlight-impor...

> U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Securities Fraud Suits Must Be Dismissed Unless Plaintiffs Plead Fact Establishing a "Cogent and Compelling Inference" of Fraudulent Intent

https://www.jonesday.com/en/insights/2007/07/us-supreme-cour...

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by IncRnd »

iso1210 wrote: post #95
exhilaration wrote: post #79

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If they faked that footage and even went as far faking the messed up VHS tracking, I will be very very impressed.

The VHS tracking is what makes me suspicious (and of course the date, the lack of any mention of it at all) If you've waited for 25 years to announce something, you're going to get video captured correctly. > There’s the KOMO News footage, which some of us still have on a dusty VHS tape Does anyone from Seatle recognise the two KOMO reporters? If the footage is a deep fake over real footage from that time, I'm very v…

> If you've waited for 25 years to announce something, you're going to get video captured correctly.

The video maight have been digitized years ago not yesterday.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by marshmallow_12 »

reaperducer wrote: post #134
coding123 wrote: post #69

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I'm assuming Seattlites would be able to confirm. However as much discussion we've had about the internet remembering everything, I can't find anything in Google to confirm "Microsoft Coffee" except for this site, discussion of it on Reddit 13 hours ago.

I can't find anything in Google to confirm "Microsoft Coffee" except for this site, discussion of it on Reddit 13 hours ago. Its choice not to display any information older than the attention span of a cracked out chipmunk is one of the main reasons I stopped using Google.

you don't do google justice. They are fully capable of displaying very outdated information. As an example, i recently wanted to look up election results from a certain country, a day after. Google decided to show me some tired, old news snippets from elections in 2015.

"stale as buns" is my phrase of choice.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by kortilla »

PascLeRasc wrote: post #63
gumby wrote: post #19

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Prison? That seems over the top.

Prison is where most Microsoft software was packaged back then: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/07/what-do-prisone...

“Most Microsoft software” is not what that article says. It just says one of Microsoft’s contractors used them.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by flanbiscuit »

Geeflow wrote: post #34

Is there any reason to believe that this actually happened? Conveniently, it was published on April 1st. The story itself would be a great April Fools' prank. :)

There's a screenshot of pcweek.com page but unfortunately (or very conveniently) the earliest the internet archive goes for that domain is May of 1996, missed it by just one month!

The full link in the screenshot is this and it still works! http://www.pcweek.com/spencer/spencer.html

update: adding wayback link: https://web.archive.org/web/19960512211429/http://www.pcweek...

update 2: From the main link: "There are a handful of print articles from tech magazines at the time"

Turns out that the Internet Archive has a ton of computer magazines scanned in and there's a lot from 1996 so now I'm going down a rabbit hole both searching for any mention of this and also nostalgia: https://archive.org/details/computermagazines?sort=-date&and...

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by [deleted] »

brundolf wrote: post #110
tim333 wrote: post #91

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It's quite flickery. I don't remember TV/video being that bad in 96.

Presumably it was the tape that degraded over the decades (perhaps stuffed in a box, moved from house to house, thought of as junk until they had the idea to post it on the internet)

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