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I don’t have a source, but I remember someone talking about how it’s policy at Apple to scrub as much old ads and marketing materials from the internet as soon

I don’t have a source, but I remember someone talking about how it’s policy at Apple to scrub as much old ads and marketing materials from the internet as soon as they become outdated. Good luck finding that old iPhone 5s ad that makes that phone look really attractive - the point is for us to only want for the newest one. I’m not so sure that I agree - history is written, memory is subjective etc.

DaiPlusPlus 4y ago
Meanwhile I can still download Windows 3.11 from Microsoft's MSDN Subscription Downloads site. It's still useful too: https://hackaday.com/2019/12/23/slack-now-on-windows-3-1/ https://hackaday.com/2019/12/23/slack-now-on-windows-3-1/ --------- ...though Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, and 2000, and the original release of Visual Studio 6, are all absent because of the Sun lawsuit, which prohibited all distribution of Microsoft software that contained Microsoft's opinionated Java VM - and all "J++" tooling. This even extends internally: when I was working at Microsoft I had to get special-clearance to have an admin-asssistant get me Windows 2000 burned to a CD-R so I could run Windows 2000 just so I could take screenshots of an obscure Office 2000 product for a presentation for a meeting that got cancelled. It would have been quicker just to RDP in to my home VM server and booted off my own pirated Windows 2000 ISOs lol.
- runlevel1 4y ago
  Microsoft is also pretty bad about removing their own videos, though. You can get a sense of that by looking at their YouTube playlists: Keynotes: (5 videos removed) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQXpv_NQsPICGmKjFQ_BxpkRjFhX57V-5 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQXpv_NQsPICGmKjFQ_Bx... Commercials: (21 videos removed) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFPUGjQjckXET1TSWuDoPjYljfedxrA04 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFPUGjQjckXET1TSWuDoP... Microsoft's Unboxed series: (15 videos removed) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFPUGjQjckXGj5o5DMcf_DymUkvavtYZQ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFPUGjQjckXGj5o5DMcf_... I do applaud them for keeping their old software available, though. And at least they don't seem to go after others' channels. At least as far as I'm aware.
HKH2 4y ago
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

DaiPlusPlus 4y ago

Meanwhile I can still download Windows 3.11 from Microsoft's MSDN Subscription Downloads site. It's still useful too: https://hackaday.com/2019/12/23/slack-now-on-windows-3-1/ https://hackaday.com/2019/12/23/slack-now-on-windows-3-1/ --------- ...though Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, and 2000, and the original release of Visual Studio 6, are all absent because of the Sun lawsuit, which prohibited all distribution of Microsoft software that contained Microsoft's opinionated Java VM - and all "J++" tooling. This even extends internally: when I was working at Microsoft I had to get special-clearance to have an admin-asssistant get me Windows 2000 burned to a CD-R so I could run Windows 2000 just so I could take screenshots of an obscure Office 2000 product for a presentation for a meeting that got cancelled. It would have been quicker just to RDP in to my home VM server and booted off my own pirated Windows 2000 ISOs lol.

runlevel1 4y ago
Microsoft is also pretty bad about removing their own videos, though. You can get a sense of that by looking at their YouTube playlists: Keynotes: (5 videos removed) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQXpv_NQsPICGmKjFQ_BxpkRjFhX57V-5 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQXpv_NQsPICGmKjFQ_Bx... Commercials: (21 videos removed) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFPUGjQjckXET1TSWuDoPjYljfedxrA04 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFPUGjQjckXET1TSWuDoP... Microsoft's Unboxed series: (15 videos removed) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFPUGjQjckXGj5o5DMcf_DymUkvavtYZQ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFPUGjQjckXGj5o5DMcf_... I do applaud them for keeping their old software available, though. And at least they don't seem to go after others' channels. At least as far as I'm aware.

HKH2 4y ago

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."