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Re:List of Fictional Microsoft Companies by romwell on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @04:53PM (#21697179)
What if I told you there was a major online bookstore circa 2002 that was also named after a humongous river[1]?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_River

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Re:List of Fictional Microsoft Companies by mikece on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @06:44PM (#21698174)
That was the joke -- that and they are in the same city and some of the engineers at MSFT have beers with the AMZN engineers.
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Re:List of Fictional Microsoft Companies by romwell on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @09:04PM (#21698992)
Of course! I totally got the joke right away! Might I say, I'm totally in the Nile!
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