The Mike Abundo Effect

Too bad Bill Gates didn’t get into a fight with John “I’m a PC” Hodgman when he appeared on The Daily Show.

I don’t think the over 90 percent of the [population] who use Windows PCs think of themselves as dullards, or the kind of klutzes that somebody is trying to say they are.

And I don’t know why [Apple is] acting like it’s superior. I don’t even get it. What are they trying to say? Does honesty matter in these things, or if you’re really cool, that means you get to be a lying person whenever you feel like it? There’s not even the slightest shred of truth to it.

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Anyone who saw Bill Gates on The Daily Show recently must’ve wondered at the guy’s hurried departure. Jon Stewart offers an interesting explanation.

Japanese otaku affectionately anthropomorphize Windows versions as cute female mascots called OS-tans. With Vista shipping in a few weeks, let’s give one last hurrah for the pretty and bouncy XP-tan.

You can guess which part of an OS-tan’s anatomy corresponds to her memory requirements. I can’t wait to see Vista-tan.