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ryandrake
on March 17, 2025
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Microsoft's 1986 IPO
Don’t forget the Rolling Stones
Start Me Up
was the marketing song. We ‘leet hackers all joked that it was entirely appropriate for “Windoze’s” theme song to include the lyrics “You make a grown man cry.” Those were the days!
canucker2016
on March 17, 2025
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Less than four months until Win95/Office95 turns 30.
spauldo
on March 18, 2025
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It also has the line "You make a dead man cum." I always wondered how Microsoft's marketing department let that one pass.
hulitu
on March 18, 2025
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I guess the decisive line was: You make a grown man cry. It is valid, even today, for all Microsoft products.
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