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"Your name is Windows. Why are you a flag?" I wonder how much they paid to listen to an expert ask that question when it was likely asked, and ignored, interna
by Ryanmf 15y ago
"Your name is Windows. Why are you a flag?"
I wonder how much they paid to listen to an expert ask that question when it was likely asked, and ignored, internally for years.
- aggarwalachal 15y agonot really a flag... i guess they look at something like this for "window" http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs15/f/2007/113/9/d/Old_Window_by_ofeliq.jpg http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs15/f/2007/113/9/d/Old_Window_by...
- cpeterso 15y agoThat window is not flapping in the wind like the Windows logo.
- bitwize 15y agoIt was a flag. I guess it's supposed to connote triumphalism. As in "yay, it finally shipped!" The NetBSD logo, itself based on a cartoon of daemons hoisting a flag like at Iwo Jima, has many of the same connotations. Back in Windows 3.1, by going to ProgMan's About box and Ctrl-Shift-Clicking the Windows logo X amount of times, you could trigger an "easter egg", one screen of which was a flag waving with the Windows logo on it. Another of which was a credits scroll with a cartoon figure that had one of four faces: Gates, Ballmer, the Windows dev lead at the time (I forget who but he had a beard); and a creepy looking teddy bear (some sort of internal mascot for the Windows division). Good times.
- cbr 15y agoPolitically, big companies often need outside experts to come in and tell them what many employees already know: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2012/01/why-so-much-consulting.html http://www.overcomingbias.com/2012/01/why-so-much-consulting...