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Re: Microsoft Coffee

#4
> Things were different back in 1996. … Microsoft had a reputation, deserved or not, as more of an imitator than an innovator.

Perhaps not too different, apparently.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

#8
Historical evidence that we’ve done all the good April Fools’ pranks, and we can just stop doing them now.

Please.

Please, I beg of you, PR teams, let us be free of corporate April Fools’ pranks. Make the world a better place.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

#9
If this happened in 2021 someone would be in prison or fired at best.

That said, this is a hilarious story and reminds me of the things people used to do in the early days of the internet in terms of trolling and such. Unfortunately, after groups like the GN*A and others successfully trolled the world several times, nation states figured it out and started trolling to actually control the narrative of the internet!

And here we are today.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

#10
I feel for the poor staff in those retail stores trying to work out what this product was that wasn't scanning while you've got a customer at your register getting more annoyed by the second.
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