What is MS doing?

[poop]

I just noticed something about MS products. They just anounced everything is moving to XP, right? Now every product (when XP coms around) will end with a long e sound.

NT (int-ee)
SE (ess-ee)
ME (em-ee)
XP (ecks-pee)
MFC (em-eff-see)

What is the deal? Are they doing this on purpose? Does this have to do with some sort of naming association and human nature. WOuldn't surprise me.

 

[Czar]

they will soon copyright the letter E

 

[poop]

I just remembered IE. Now that is just damned strange. Only one Unix I know of ends in long e.

BSD.

 

[Azraele]

<<they will soon copyright the letter E >>

LOL wouldn't suprise me.

As for what MS is doing, I don't think MS knows what they're doing.

 

[Kosugi]

They are actually sending you a submliminal message on their products... particularly performance.

You see,

You have Windows CE
Windows ME
Windows NT


And that all spells CEMENT, as in, &quot;We in microsoft will make our products so large, cumbersome, and complex, that we will make your piddly machine perform as if running in wet cement. Thus, the customer (you) will continuely need to run to our conspirator, INTEL, to buy the latest and greatest processor to put in your already outdated machines, even though you bought that machine last week&quot;.

It's a conspiracy, I tell you! Damn IT!

 

[SpongeBob]

Maybe they'll copyright the E and sell it on a subscription basis like they're planning to do with XP.

 

[Pretender]

Actually, there's DirectX (duh, rect, exxxxxx), DirectX SDK if you program (directX esssss deeeee kay).

And, there's also Windows 2000 (twooooo thousanddddd), Win3.1 (screw this, I'm not gonna prononuce 3.1), and C# (seeeeeee shaaarrrppp).

 

[BigSmooth]

Well, there are 9 different letters that end in an &quot;e&quot; sound: b, c, d, e, g, p, t, v, &amp; z

 

[mastaki11a]

All your E are belong to us

 

[Champo41]

There are other things to worry about in this world other than what letter of the alphabet Microsoft's products sound like.

BTW, poop, I think you have too much time on your hands to actually discover this

 

[tim0thy]

but it's an interesting discovery nonetheless.

 

[poop]

Life is meaningless anyhow, so why not waste all that free time?

As far as free time... if I slept more than 5-6 hours I would not post at all. When I sleep well, my posting average goes to hell. Go figure.