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Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by verklaring »

duxup wrote: post #28
cnt-dracula wrote: post #11

It’s sad that a company can’t accept negative PR and show them that they do indeed support their employee’s actions. I think it has more to do with how all organizations want to feel professional instead of nerdy and fun.

I'm not sure what employee actions they're supposed to support. MS didn't get a chance to 'support' this, these guys did the thing on their own. If I'm MS I'm not sure I want to do a lot to "support" them after the fact as I really don't need groups of other employees stocking the shelves with fake products... Any prank that looks like it has someone else's name on it, or approval... but isn't approved is just always…

Ummm, this was done on April 1st. I would have killed for a box. In fact, I'd kill for one now, but I didn't see any on Ebay.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by atommclain »

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. :)

For what it's worth, I searched The Seattle Times, the Seattle PI, and "Washington Newspapers" through the Seattle Public Library online portal and didn't find anything.

There were articles recounting April fools day pranks, but none mention Microsoft Coffee which is weird to me considering that it was covered on a local station.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by collinmanderson »

cjlovett wrote: post #202

Fantastic story. I joined Microsoft in 1997 but unfortunately I cannot confirm the story, I never heard this story before, but it doesn't surprise me, we had a lot of fun back then with all kinds of pranks, and Easter eggs, until one day it was all suddenly stopped, ship an Easter egg and get fired was what they told us. That was a very sad day. I can confirm that Microsoft was doing things with Java back then, I wor…

Excel 97 3D Flight-simulator easter egg[0] was amazing. Also, Word 97 had a pinball easter egg.

Released November 19, 1996. 7 months after Microsoft Coffee.

[0] https://eeggs.com/items/718.html

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by atdrummond »

emrah wrote: post #345
atdrummond wrote: post #306

Oh wow... you have just given me some sense of comfort after feeling like a moron for over two decades. When I was growing up, my dad had visited Seattle and came back from the trip with a box of Microsoft Coffee. He claimed to have gotten it from a store called Egg-Head’s Software or Egghead Computing or something like that. (EDIT: Upon reading the full article it seems to have been Egghead Software.) I took it to m…

Why on earth would you be laughed out of the room for this. Sounds like your friends were a piece of work.

It was the day of “my cousin told me if you did this combo you could get Ermac in Mortal Kombat!”

I.E. we were dumb kids who would make things up to impress our friends. They weren’t trying to be mean, they were just incredulous.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by Talanes »

lupire wrote: post #326
neom wrote: post #299

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wasn't teasing, I actually called them. I was curious if it was a deepfake ML video so I wanted to find out. I got passed around quite a bit till I spoke with a guy in news room archives who had been there "a long time and would know", that's why I specifically got passed to him I believe.

Sure, but you could be lying or they could be lying.

You could append this to any statement though.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by Talanes »

tim333 wrote: post #91
brundolf wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The news footage is pretty convincing

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

My family didn't really mess with VHS recording growing up, but I do remember getting shitty tapes from friends' families who had recorded stuff off tv and seeing glitches like this. Could just be the vhs player/recorders didn't work as well as professional ones?

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by Talanes »

tim333 wrote: post #161
brundolf wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

I recall bad video as more like this - lines on the pic https://youtu.be/BIVEitYSEQ8?t=312 The vertical hold going as in the featured article was more of a 60s/70s thing in my memory.

I said this upstream, but I have clear memories of borrowing tapes of stuff people had recorded off their tv in the 90s and having exactly these kinds of glitches. I think we're seeing the difference between a professionally recorded vhs and a home system that someone just learned how to use.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by jhugo »

judge2020 wrote: post #93
gruez wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I believe GTS certs are Google (employee) only, correct? Doesn't seem like it https://crt.sh/?Identity=%25&iCAID=180754

Ah ok, I thought Letsencrypt was the only available auto-issuing CA on Google Cloud but that must have changed with GKE. The 1e100 address is probably pointed at a gke load balancer then.

Why GKE? It's probably just a static site hosted on Google Sites or something...
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