Who doesn't love a good pun? As a a Slayer fan, programmer and Windows admin, I really dig the name. ;-) In "I Sing The Body Electronic", Fred Moody describes

Who doesn't love a good pun? As a a Slayer fan, programmer and Windows admin, I really dig the name. ;-) In "I Sing The Body Electronic", Fred Moody describes Alice Cooper visiting the Microsoft campus (which is home to a fair share of metal heads, apparently). "Why are you guys called Microsoft? Wouldn't you rather be called Macro-Hard?" The same book also mentions a programmer having to work the weekend before Encarta is shipped, because a freelance programmer put an article titled "Slayer sucks like vacuum" in it. So, historically speaking, this kind of evens things out. ;-)