Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone

(devblogs.microsoft.com)

78 points | by luu 1 hour ago

11 comments

  • yreg 35 minutes ago
    This article includes the photo of the (clothed) hologram (it's the third image).

    https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/038-design...

  • mrosenbjerg 43 minutes ago
    Raymond Chen is my favorite MS blog writer
  • docdeek 46 minutes ago
    [2003]
    • pizzaiolo 36 minutes ago
      That's how far back Windows need to go to try to elicit some non-negative attention
      • Tallain 5 minutes ago
        I mean, Raymond Chen has been writing The Old New Thing consistently for over 20 years. Nearly every single entry is interesting, informative, and illuminating, aimed at every facet of software engineering, old and new, over the decades. He may be part of the final bastion of quality and care for detail at MS, dwindling and faint as it is.

        Windows doesn't need or deserve defending. It's atrocious. But this is a silly comment.

  • jck86 29 minutes ago
    Red Moon Desert is now my wallpaper for the rest of the week.

    Looking at it from a distance indeed may raise some brows.

    • fluoridation 24 minutes ago
      Someone has to accept that they're looking at the flattest pair of cheeks ever to interpret that as an ass.
  • teekert 43 minutes ago
    Another example: [0]

    Have to say this never would have occurred to me. There are also examples of US people being offended by scenes considered harmless in other cultures, ie the Totoro bathtub scene [1], search for "family bathing scene".

    I guess if this hologram offended people, there must be some nice stories about Nirvana's Nevermind (1991).

    [0] https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-butt...

    [1] https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/my-neighbour-totoro-10-things-di...

    • skeaker 39 minutes ago
      Hmm. I gotta say I do see these though. Especially Claude...
  • jb1991 38 minutes ago
    So what was the government that complained?
  • kleiba2 27 minutes ago
    The same government should sue all new mothers: how dare they deliver babies into this world completely naked!!!
  • lukasbm 29 minutes ago
    Why should the govt remain nameless?
    • ketzu 10 minutes ago
      For the same reason they acted on the complaint and changed the hologram. It would be bad for business.

      I also think it would be very impolite to make fun of your clients on the internet for a stupid request while naming them explicitly while doing so.

  • kjimlau 30 minutes ago
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  • Taikhoom10 37 minutes ago
    [dead]
  • OuterVale 46 minutes ago
    Users scare me.