(OT) Shocking truth about IE7, office 2007 and Vista design revealed!!!

In the 5 year period between windows releases Microsoft has a special
project that was "top secret".
They had sent expeditions to Africa to find the best quality baboons they
could find.
The reason for this is was a idea that flashed into the mind of Bill Gates
when he was visiting his local zoo.

"What if we could tap into the animal instinct and use that to help us
create better User Interfaces???"

The expedition smuggled 10 baboons and flied them to Redmond where after 3
months of training they were
put as heads if User Interface design for Vista, office2007, and Internet
explorer 7.
Using normal offices, wearing suites etc these monkeys were part of the
Microsoft team!

"It was a change for sure, and that's what we wanted for Vista products"
said the personnel manager of Microsoft.
"We wanted to tap into the animal instinct and give vista a "masculine"
felling and look.
One word was on our mind, change change change.. we didn't really know what
to change or how to change it
but we did need change, that's the role the monkeys played."

"Our idea was that we believe that animals are far more intelligent than
with think. Baboons are primates like us
and share 99% of our dna... we wanted them to lead us in this new era and
guide us with their instincts.
Hey and it was fun monkeying around with the baboons on the coffee breaks
too"

"The way the baboons taught us how to design Vista and the other new
products was ingenious!
We made special building blocks of various designs.. and we let the monkeys
play around with them...
after some time one monkey made the vista start menu, another one made the
Internet explorer 7 interface...
and another made the office 2007 ribbon!"
"We would have never thought of these designs on our own!!!" Said one of the
senior developers for vista...

However this news when leaked this week created much controversy. Microsoft
was using animals for
their own purposes, taking advantage of them, paying them only with bananas
and coffee and an occasional smoke...

Microsoft spokesman, Gregory Nevel said to the press:
"It is our decision to put them on the payroll from now on.. if they are
good enough for making vista, they should be
able to go online and order as many bananas as they want"


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The above is a fictional story... but it may reflect reality in a humorous
way.

> The above is a fictional story...


I find this the most humorous part.

"Based on a true story..."

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"progressive realization" <-> wrote in message
news:uRB8$%...
> In the 5 year period between windows releases Microsoft has a special
> project that was "top secret".
> They had sent expeditions to Africa to find the best quality baboons they
> could find.
> The reason for this is was a idea that flashed into the mind of Bill Gates
> when he was visiting his local zoo.
>
> "What if we could tap into the animal instinct and use that to help us
> create better User Interfaces???"
>
> The expedition smuggled 10 baboons and flied them to Redmond where after 3
> months of training they were
> put as heads if User Interface design for Vista, office2007, and Internet
> explorer 7.
> Using normal offices, wearing suites etc these monkeys were part of the
> Microsoft team!
>
> "It was a change for sure, and that's what we wanted for Vista products"
> said the personnel manager of Microsoft.
> "We wanted to tap into the animal instinct and give vista a "masculine"
> felling and look.
> One word was on our mind, change change change.. we didn't really know what
> to change or how to change it
> but we did need change, that's the role the monkeys played."
>
> "Our idea was that we believe that animals are far more intelligent than
> with think. Baboons are primates like us
> and share 99% of our dna... we wanted them to lead us in this new era and
> guide us with their instincts.
> Hey and it was fun monkeying around with the baboons on the coffee breaks
> too"
>
> "The way the baboons taught us how to design Vista and the other new
> products was ingenious!
> We made special building blocks of various designs.. and we let the monkeys
> play around with them...
> after some time one monkey made the vista start menu, another one made the
> Internet explorer 7 interface...
> and another made the office 2007 ribbon!"
> "We would have never thought of these designs on our own!!!" Said one of the
> senior developers for vista...
>
> However this news when leaked this week created much controversy. Microsoft
> was using animals for
> their own purposes, taking advantage of them, paying them only with bananas
> and coffee and an occasional smoke...
>
> Microsoft spokesman, Gregory Nevel said to the press:
> "It is our decision to put them on the payroll from now on.. if they are
> good enough for making vista, they should be
> able to go online and order as many bananas as they want"
>
>
> -------
> The above is a fictional story... but it may reflect reality in a humorous
> way.
>
>
>

haha, nice