Name: Anonymous 2014-01-28 0:38
I have fascination for Microsoft. The super-enthusiastic marketing by Ballmer et al. The genius programmers like Raymond Chen and Dave Cutler. The pretty pictures on computer screens that they show in the demos. The little sounds Windows makes. The mystical mystery of how someone ever thought ".NET" was a good name for anything. All the strange abbreviated code names like "NTOSKRNL" and "umdmxfrm.dll". The central importance on Internet culture for the past decade of everything to do with Microsoft and Windows. The millions of fraudulous imitators, including the Indians who telephone and claim to be from "Microsoft" and these ads posted on the street for tech support with the old Windows XP logo sketchily pasted in. The secret source code kept in Microsoft's vaults for decades, and never leaked in full. The fact that all they ever seemed to do is bullshit their way into a monopoly then rip off Apple. But also the interesting fact that NT is the only major system that isn't Unix. All the versions of Windows with the massive release launch events. The speeches from Bill Gates where he frequently uses the word "rich", perhaps as a kind of Freudian slip self-description moment, and always prefixes established technical terms like "natural language processing" by "so-called", but never prefixes things like the Microsoft Bob "agent" by "so-called". The idea that Mr. Gates is a billionaire and could spend his days watching TV and worrying about nothing while I spend my life freezing my ass in this cold country. The entire mystery of Win32 API programming, complete with dozens of complicated verbose routines and structures and lots of NULLs, and where everything is in hungarian notation. The fact that Windows XP has been running almost half the world non-stop since 2001. The decision all of sudden to make everything tablet-based with Windows 8 in 2012, for no apparent reason and with poor success. The knowledge that a lot of Windows is written in good old C and not this hipstr.js bullshit. The fact that they came up with the slogan "that's business with .NET" which sounds like an advertisment for a toilet. The Apple copying, discussed ad nauseam on millions of fanboy forums since forever.