Can we STOP spelling Microsoft with a "$" PLEASE!!!

[Atmos Duality]

*snip*

After that, I can say without a doubt that you're a P$3-owning Apple-user.
*snip*

You have made a huge assumption, and are completely wrong on both accounts.
For that matter, I hold any company who engages in such practices with contempt.

Slight correction: that's not reverse engineering. Reverse engineering is entirely lawful. That would be a simple case of copyright infringement. Similar to the SCO debacle. (Hah, remember that? When Microsoft provided substatial financial support to another company that would file phony lawsuits against IBM, Red Hat and others, to scare off businesses thinking of using Linux.)

Ah. Thank you for the correction. I hate misinforming people, as bias as I can be at times.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

You can't order people to stop quirks like that.

Well, he can. But no one will listen. In fact people, like me, will just start doing the quirk to prove he is powerless to stop it.

I didn't even know about this but now that I've read this thread, I'm going to use it.

OT: There is a technique I use when I encounter a popular saying/mannerism that I don't like. I "ignore" it. Novel idea, don't you think? You just don't look or read it. It is that simple!

[sub][sub]Micro$oft huh? Well, now I know what spelling I'm going to use when referring to that mean company![/sub][/sub]

[sub][sub][sub]I want the ability to change the Wallpaper damnit![/sub][/sub][/sub]

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Well, he can. But no one will listen.

And as such it's not an order, it's a plea. So he can't order people...

It is an order... In his world.

 

[Danny3005]

Im pretty sure its Apple that puts out the over priced everything

 

[Locko96]

I actually have never noticed this on the Escapist. However, I shall oblige to something I do anyways because those are the best things to agree to!

I'm also quite surprised that this forum hasn't turned into a sissy fight/flame war between the computer OS factions (Apple, Windows, Linux)

 

[blinkgun96]

Why is it that EVERY conversation, no matter the subject, brings up Nazis or WWII in some way shape or form. There is a difference between someone expressing their views through internet slang and a faction that committed widespread genocide.

I don't know if someone has responded like this, but here [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwins_law] is your answer.

OP: I know people who work for Microsoft and know for a fact that they have a fantastic human resources department, or so I'm told.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

Why is it that EVERY conversation, no matter the subject, brings up Nazis or WWII in some way shape or form. There is a difference between someone expressing their views through internet slang and a faction that committed widespread genocide.

I don't know if someone has responded like this, but here [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwins_law] is your answer.

OP: I know people who work for Microsoft and know for a fact that they have a fantastic human resources department, or so I'm told.

Actually, yes, someone did point out Godwin's law to me earlier and when someone had quoted me wondering the same thing, I told him about it as well. Either way, it is a true and entertaining rule of the internet.

 

[fletch_talon]

Wel, they finally released a console which doesn't require you to buy Microsoft brand wireless adapters to have wireless capabilities. But unless I'm mistaken, it still requires their brand of hardrive, instead of just allowing any hardrive to be used.
They've improved, but its still a bit cheap (not as in price) in my opinion.

I'm more concerned about a company that sells molded plastic and water based paints for ridiculous prices.
I'm looking at you Game$Workshop...

 

[UberNoodle]

People can do as they like. How about YOU just don't get bothered by it. You're the problem here not the people who post it as you're the one making a thread about it and unnecessarily telling people what they can and can't do.

Actually, ALLOWING something and DISALLOWING something have the same weight. Nobody is the "problem". Freedom doesn't mean to live with disregard for others' rights or opinions. Certainly this debate over the sarcastic dollar sign in the rendition of the word "Micro$oft" is nothing at all to lose sleep over - I don't care. But then again, that's just my opinion. However, it's fair enough to find the exclusionary use of that dollar sign somewhat inconsistant with the reality of corporate greed. I think all company names could be written with some reference to the rabit collection of money in them.

 

[Reyalsfeihc]

What? It's hilarious to make fun of big multinational corporations. They are the only ones who can take it.

Plus, the way they are pushing for monopoly gets them an evil mark in my book.

Agreed. Although I hate Intel SOOO Much more... GO AMD!

 

[dex-dex]

NEVER!!!

also i like doing that! why are you ruining my fun?

 

[Booze Zombie]

Oh, Microsoft = Micro$oft? I thought everybody was playing games on a console produced by a company pronounced "Micro-dollar-oft" but I didn't want to ask because I was afraid of seeming n00bish.

To appease all parties involved we shall refer to Microsoft as "Corporate Bastard$," Sony as "Japanese Corporate Bastard$" and Apple as "Smug Corporate Bastard$." Is this acceptable?

Oh, and Nintendo will be titled "Retro Japanese Corporate Bastard$."

Easy to remember and truthful, I like it!

 

[Blair Bennett]

I will stop spelling Micro$oft as is displayed when, and only when, we cease to do the same for Ke$ha. Seriously, spelling things like this doesn't make sense. What kind of self-absorbed non-talent decides that this looks cool?

 

[Vilcus]

I've never spelled Microsoft with a "$", mainly because it's grammatically incorrect, but also because it's just stupid looking. I don't care if people do it, but you'll never catch me spelling it that way.

 

[Decagonapus]

It just annoys me slightly that people think Microsoft are 'an evil corporation after their money' for no particular reason. Compare Microsoft's attitude to OS piracy to Apple's reaction to firmware modification.

Apple: "You cracked our security? Apple products are for Apple devices running Apple programs, your device is no longer under warranty even for physical defects! You also just lost your app store mate!

Microsoft: Oh fuck this, we know everyone does it but damn if we have to be happy with it. You have to register for updates but we won't check your registration's authenticity.

Again, they are merely doing business. Presumably the most common place for OS piracy would be on your 'local neighborhood computer savvy person's' computer. If they alienate those people, they are saying good-buy to free tech support and recommendation for both home users and offices. If enough of your tech staff tell you they would be more efficient at their jobs using linux, rest assured the company will migrate. (and its not an expensive migration either)

 

[jpoon]

Fuck, I've been calling them Micro$oft for years when attempting to label them as greedy fucks. They are definitely still greedy fucks so...


Electronic Art$
Activi$ion
$ony

 

[ANImaniac89]

No

that all I have to say on the matter I refuse to bend to your will.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

unless you can show me one company that actively hates and rejects money and profit, microsoft is just another face in the crowd. They're not the most greedy or the most customer-unfriendly. they're not evil. they're not good either, don't get me wrong, they're just capitalists.

As I am guessing it was my 360 slim thread that inspired this.

I will respond by letting you know the reason I wrote it like that is because of the obscene amount of money they have tried to scam me out of (not to mention all that wasted phone credit on the line to Microsoft support) over the last 6 years through broken or faulty products and overpriced peripherals.

 

[theultimateend]

unless you can show me one company that actively hates and rejects money and profit, microsoft is just another face in the crowd. They're not the most greedy or the most customer-unfriendly. they're not evil. they're not good either, don't get me wrong, they're just capitalists.

Calling it "Micro$oft" is the only way to easily discern who is a prick online without needing to read the content of their posts.

You just scan for that word with that dollar sign and you know they are a jackass. Pretty solid, simple, and effective.

Like the world's most efficient Dickdar.

 

[mjc0961]

I had to pay 50 pounds for a wireless attatchment for my Xbox when i know those damn things are not built for 50 pounds or even close. Also the fact i have to pay for xbox live as well as the original expendeture. Also the fact this new slim is red ringing already. Il let you decide what that tells you.

It tells me that you don't really know what you're talking about. I haven't heard any real reports of 360 slims failing, and if they did, they wouldn't be "red ringing" because Microsoft took out the red LED from the slim: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/101469-No-Red-Ring-of-Death-for-the-New-360
Yes it's laughable that they stopped it by removing the red light, but still, to me you sound more like you just hate the 360 and don't care what you're talking about as long as you can find something to bash it for.

Anyway I'm with you TC, calling them "Micro$oft" is just plain stupid. I really don't feel like re-writing the post I just wrote only about a half hour or so ago on the matter.

Also let it be on the record that if any consumer electronics company out there should have a currency symbol stuffed in their name, it should be Apple. Even if we have to use the little money symbol from Pokémon that looks like a P with dashes in it because no real currency symbols look like any of the letters in the word apple.