I’m not sure that’s how that happened. If memory serves, they were already working on xp at the time, but that started to slip the year 2000 deadline. So, in order to keep the OS revenue gravy train rolling, they quickly threw ME together to have something to release in the interim.
This comment officer. This is the one that hurt me.
Huh, TIL about the Farage crash. Great irony too, crashing the plane flying the UKIP banner.
It’s funny how even Microsoft themselves seem to forget ME ever existed.
To be fair, he kept his personal life away from the media as much as he could. Especially later in life. So there’s a decent chance many of them simply didn’t know him beyond the hits and headlines.
Is that in reference to Bowie’s coked out era where he declared Hitler the first rock star? Or am I missing something?
“What happened?” are you for real?
Did you not read any newspaper, watch any news, or generally exist in society since 2016?
First you decided to bazooka yourselves in the foot with the Brexit vote, then went through a revolving clown show of increasingly bizarre political sideshow pieces that pretended to be PM, before finally opting to negotiate an EU exist that was about as disastrous as it could’ve been for your economy.
Add in the fact that the entire world has been turning to shit around you due to despotic leaders trying to rape their neighbours/the climate/populace/actual kids/everything joined by a cabal of evil billionaires who are gleefully destroying democracy and the world economy so they can go out in one final last hurrah of capitalism, and you have the audacity to ask “What happened?”?.
I seriously can’t with these “I don’t do politics” idiots anymore.
As someone who has lived experience of the impacts and atrocities of the war Milošević started and this scumbag was in charge of carrying out, I’m reading this obituary with much joy.