OT: Who said Microsoft don't have a sense of humour?

On a Microsoft blog announcing IE7, some people can barely contain themselves:

# Can't wait!
Tuesday, February 15, 2005 11:57 AM by N.N. Thayer
A few preliminary words...

My experience with IE 6 since its release has been fine as paint - all I have to do is not browse like a moron and weird crud stays off my system. It has serviced me very well, and there has never been any chance of me switching to a second-rate browser with a tortoiselike development process. As long as IE remains the driving force in WWW capabilities and makes it easy for me to interact securely with a sometimes dangerous global network, I will stick with it.

That said, I look forward to IE 7. I expect the same take-my-breath-away innovation that Microsoft has repeatedly demonstrated over the years in the full breadth of its products. I won't pretend to know what's in store, because no matter what I guess, I will be pleasantly surprised. I always am.

(Yup, he's for real)

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Re: OT: Who said Microsoft don't have a sense of humour? by shenme (Priest) on Sep 20, 2005 at 04:42 UTC
Yup, he's for real I've been told that computer people have trouble discerning sarcasm, and there are times when I have that problem. But this posting from February has to be a masterpiece of sarcasm. Consider it this way. If the poster had bolded just those same sections that you did, wouldn't that have given it away to just everybody? And been deleted? And the fact that the posting was in February, and it is now September, well, doesn't that make "tortoiselike development process" just stand out like a sore thumb? (or would it be some other finger?)	[reply]
Re: OT: Who said Microsoftees aren't brainwashed? by 5mi11er (Deacon) on Sep 19, 2005 at 19:56 UTC
Would that have been a better title? Update: In light of shenme's post below, and a good 24 hours reflection, I hereby retract my incredulity. In its place I share some appreciation for the depth and bredth of sarcasm offered in this snippet. -Scott	[reply]
Re: OT: Who said Microsoft don't have a sense of humour? by Anonymous Monk on Sep 20, 2005 at 14:28 UTC
I guess the phrase "tortoiselike development process" refers to the Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox family of browsers. For which "tortoiselike" is quite a compliment. After all, more than 10 years after the release of Netscape 1, it still can't parse HTML 2 correctly. If you can read this, your browser is broken.	[reply]