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Re:Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downlo... by formerly_proven on Thursday December 02, 2021 @09:16AM (#29416319)
"OOPSIE WOOPSIE!! Uwu We made a fucky wucky!! A wittle fucko boingo! The code monkeys at our headquarters are working VEWY HAWD to fix this!"
Re:Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downlo... by howdydoo on Thursday December 02, 2021 @09:50AM (#29416816)
From what I've seen of Edge, it should be the project managers working vewy hawd to fix things, not the developers.
Re:Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downlo... by Spivak on Thursday December 02, 2021 @09:45AM (#29416733)
At least this tone accurately conveys the seriousness of the average dev team and is more fun than “this error has been sent to an unmonitored Slack channel, if you want to scream into the void here’s a link to our community forums.”
Re:Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downlo... by prepend on Thursday December 02, 2021 @10:10AM (#29417064)
I would rather have a message of “we piped this error to /dev/null and will ignore it until someone important manually brings it to our attention” than whatever this is.

I also don’t think it reflects the dev team tone as it seems so fake fun and probably means the dev team is in terror of saying the wrong thing. I’d rather see the localization resource bundle value than whatever this is.

It’s about as honest as the Costco greeter in Idiocracy saying “Welcome…I love you.”

Re:Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downlo... by 1_player on Thursday December 02, 2021 @01:47PM (#29420558)
Oh shit, corporate Twitter is going to adopt this kind of meme language in 5 years or so. Not even Idiocracy went that far.