• Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Somebody in the MS marketing department: ‘Everyone hates clippy. What can we do about this?’

    ‘Paste a couple gifs of a CGI dog on top of it?’

    ‘Genius! Let’s go to our two week lunch!’

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      3 months ago

      30 years later:
      'Everyone hates us. What can we do about this?’

      ‘Make it fashionable for people born in 2003 to pretend to be nostalgic for Clippy?’

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 months ago

        It started from right to repair advocate Louis Rossman. If MS has got their claws in him the right to repair movement has just stalled out.

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          3 months ago

          It’s not really necessary to get their claws in him; the more this trend gains attention, the less nuanced and directed the trajectory will become. Microsoft is much more equipped to algorithmically control the trajectory than what’s-his-name, so they will.
          If they’re not too distracted with providing warfighting capabilities to our boys here and abroad.