Re: Windows is named Windows : But Why?

From	Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Windows is named Windows : But Why?
Date	2015-11-13 03:47 -0400
Organization	Bridgewater Institute for Advanced Study - Blacksmith Shop
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Johnny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> writes:

> A very interesting read indeed. It neatly explains the "Advertising Hype 
> with no end" windows 95 campaign that was so disparagingly remarked upon 
> in hindsight in usenet and the press later on.

       Voice:  Where do you want to go today?
       Choir:  Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis
       ------------------------------------------------------------
      (The damned and accursed are convicted to the flames of hell.)
                        -- from Mozart's Requiem
                        -- Microsoft TV ad for Internet Exploder (1998)


> It certainly drives home the point that the Maddison Avenue lot
> *should* be the first up against the wall come the 'Bloody
> Revolution'. :-)

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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  Re: Windows is named Windows : But Why? Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-11-12 11:08 +0100
    Re: Windows is named Windows : But Why? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-11-12 17:44 +0000
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    Re: Windows is named Windows : But Why? Johnny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2015-11-12 18:05 +0000
      Re: Windows is named Windows : But Why? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-11-13 03:47 -0400
        Re: Windows is named Windows : But Why? Johnny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2015-11-13 19:18 +0000
      Re: Windows is named Windows : But Why? Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-11-14 09:39 +0100

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