Comment by ralferoo
5 hours ago
Hehe, this reminds me of 30 years ago when people used to stylise it as Micro$oft or creatively misspell it as Microshaft, etc. Even on the Amiga, there was the filesystem that could read PC format disks that was called MessyDos. It just seems like the next generation has discovered what an easy name it is to make puns from.
If you're German-speaking: "Klopilot" and "Vibrierkot" are some modern day personal favorites.
On a similar, nostalgic note, I recall boot screens for "Sinnlos 98" floating around, back when modifying the bootup logo was a thing.
> Klopilot
funnily enough works just fine in Polish
There are regions in Germany (Hessen) where "Azure" is pronounced the exact same way as "Ärger" (trouble). Makes you think...
Wow, that's incredible. Even though I'm from Hessen, I never thought of making that connection!
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Ok, Vibrierkot is something for the German shitpost communities with all my Zuhausis im Zwischennetz.
As a Polish man I love Klopilot <3
You made me laugh, thanks.
Maybe you can explain it for we non German speakers.
Klopilot: Klo ~ Toilet Vibrierkot: Kot ~ Faeces
Don’t forget Kleinweich
"Der Ätsch-Browser".
I used M$ at work the other day by accident, I was like ooh wait this isn't turn of the century slashdot.
From my parent's home in Wyoming I stab at thee!
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/22/m
Last week on a comedy show (the daily show) they made a joke about bill gates "micro and soft" which was old in the 90s already, so I can confirm this is the case.
In Brazil people used to say "Ruindows", which is a play with the portuguese word for bad.
MS-DOS itself is derived from QDOS, which stands for "Quick and Dirty Operating System".
Things only went downhill from there.
Orgs have had sensitive skin like this for a long time. Gamespy was a service for launching and playing multiplayer games with lobbies before Steam, and if you “accidentally” typed “GaySpy” (it was the early 2000s) it would autocorrect to “GameSpy” by the time it appeared in your messages.
https://xkcd.com/2015/
Don't forget Windoze.
In french we have Windaube (pronunced Windob).
Daube is a slang word for something of low quality.
Don't forget Winblows
Another oldie
"If you play the Win98 CD backwards, it summons Satan. It's worse when you play it forwards - it installs Windows"
Ah, good times... :-)
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Outbreak Express!
It was always "Microshit" to me
Internet exploder
Internet Exploiter
I always like Wangblows
in Italy it was WinZozz (zozzo = dirty)
In Polish we used to say "Winzgroza" (win terror)
I used to have a M$ email signature 30 years ago, and pay, nowaydays I mostly use Windows on my laptop, because I am not willing to pay Apple prices even though I can afford them, and even last year I was dealing with GNU/Linux installation issues on a Gigabyte BRIX.
Been in this industry since I graduated college, I have never stopped using Micro$oft or Microshaft. Also a fan of M$, Winblows…
Thank goodness their employees have time to crack down on people making fun of them on fucking Discord. That should definitely be the priority of a multi-trillion dollar software company, is making sure your users aren’t mocking you. We don’t need a taskbar that works reliably or anything.
Microscope Winblows
I was partial to Micro$haft.