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Wed, 25 Jun 1997 22:16:02 +0100
Hiya Folks...
Here's the latest news from Micro$oft...
Wishes & Dreams...
- ANDREA
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Microsoft today announced that it will be changing its name to "Moft"
which will clear up space on users' hard disks. It is estimated that a
typical Windows 95 installation contains about 2,842,597 iterations of
the word "Microsoft", in copyright notices, end-user licence agreements,
'About' screens, as well as several multi-megabyte files containing
nothing else (the so-called ego.dll series), etc.
So, after the change, a user will have about 14 MBytes more disk space.
Stock prices of hard-disk manufacturers dipped slightly after the
announcement.
"Well, the programs will take up less space on the user's disk," said
Bill Gates, CEO of Moft. "But we have never cared about that. The change
will allow us to ship Windows 95 on 13 disks instead of 14, thus saving
about $50 million a year in media costs. We are also looking at
shortening the names of some of our software products; for instance 'The
Microsoft Exchange' may be changed to 'The Moft Pit'.
Gates denied that the move was because of problems with the alleged long
filename support in Win95 which still uses 8.3 filenames underneath. He
did admit, however, that "MICROSO~1" did look a little ugly.
Gates added that the junior programmer who discovered the potential
savings has been rewarded with a free copy of 'Moft Off for Moft Win
95'.