Does it smell like an Xbox? Does it smell like a person who plays Xbox? Why do you need to smell like Xbox? Anyway if you go to Australia you can find out, but who the hell would pay real actual money to smell like Xbox branded soap?
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"BING YOU'RE FIRED!" Sit back and enjoy an angry ex-Microsoft employee retelling the last sound he heard before getting fired at Microsoft:Bing. That Groundhog Day reference though!
What a time to be alive...via The Seattle Times:
A few days after Microsoft released Windows 10 to the public last year, Teri Goldstein’s computer started trying to download and install the new operating system.
The update, which she says she didn’t authorize, failed. Instead, the computer she uses to run her Sausalito, Calif., travel-agency business slowed to a crawl. It would crash, she says, and be unusable for days at a time.
“I had never heard of Windows 10,” Goldstein said. “Nobody ever asked me if I wanted to update.”
When outreach to Microsoft’s customer support didn’t fix the issue, Goldstein took the software giant to court, seeking compensation for lost wages and the cost of a new computer.
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And so soon after Jobs passed away? Scandalous! What will the neighbors say?
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