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I see the marketing people fell asleep at the switch here. With just a bit of effort, Windows could have been "the operating system that goes to 11."
by reuven 11y ago
I see the marketing people fell asleep at the switch here. With just a bit of effort, Windows could have been "the operating system that goes to 11."
- tgbrter 11y agoWhy don't you instead just make 10 better?
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- Gabriel_Martin 11y ago... It goes to eleven.
- fizixer 11y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven
- idlewords 11y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke
- dalke 11y agohttps://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1738 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1738
- talles 11y agoFor one second I thought there was a RFC for jokes.
- dalke 11y agoSadly, no. Given the up-and-down nature of the points to my response, my own joke was that someone who needed a pointer for what "joke" meant, given simply as a URL, might also need a pointer for what a URL means. With of course the contradiction that I gave it as a URL.
- yyhhsj0521 11y agoGOOD HUMOR
- wongarsu 11y agohttps://xkcd.com/670/ https://xkcd.com/670/
- gregpilling 11y agoOne of my favorites
- daniel-levin 11y agoWell possibly the point here is the double pronged attack on the fact that Mac OS stopped at X (ten) and there is a common expression 'turn it up to eleven' [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven
- goback2reddit 11y agoGo back to reddit.
- nhebb 11y agoThen detractors would just say that Windows is a stale joke.
- adam74 11y agoI think they realized that joke is getting a little old.
- jcoffland 11y agoX Windows has been stuck at 11 for decades.