this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2023
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[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 92 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] kautau@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nothing like the beauty of windows having a modern UI with a hard drive icon drawn by some intern in 1998

[–] reversebananimals@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it makes you feel any better the intern got hired full-time.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 5 points 1 year ago

And laid off 6 months later

[–] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] kautau@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The best part about this is that the keyboard company likely followed tutorials for building their device drivers and never substituted the default image (which is a fictitious company called Fabrikam):

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/identity-lifecycle-manager/ms694611(v=vs.85)

And someone is now selling attire under the Fabrikam name with just the page title as “Microsoft”

https://prod.fabrikam.com/