The latest Windows 11 preview build in the Beta Channel delivers a rather odd change to the Start menu. For some reason, the "Sign out" button is hidden behind a Microsoft 365 ad and other banners.
That’s what the win XP search dog was for.
They’d send it out hunting for frogs so that they can boil them all.
Bill Gates first programme was a reverse frogger game, he’d get to drive the cars and score get points for squishing frogs.
I think it was called Grand Theft Amphibian or something. The dude just really hates frogs.
It doesn’t matter that interpreted literally, it’s not what happens to frogs. That’s not the point of the phrase, and certainly not the point the other commenter was making.
They were trying to talk about Microsoft’s business practices, not about what happens if you were to literally start boiling a frog. Yes, we know they aren’t fine with it, it’s extremely well-known and completely irrelevant.
You mean the myth?
It’s a metaphor.
It’s a widely-understood phrase/metaphor. Nobody is saying Microsoft literally boils millions of frogs.
What is it with Redditors/Lemmings taking a turn of phrase, interpreting it extremely literally, and completely missing the point?
That’s what the win XP search dog was for.
They’d send it out hunting for frogs so that they can boil them all.
Bill Gates first programme was a reverse frogger game, he’d get to drive the cars and score get points for squishing frogs.
I think it was called Grand Theft Amphibian or something. The dude just really hates frogs.
Autism, personally speaking.
I knew it was a metaphor, but it’s also a lie and does not actually happen.
That’s actually the result of “looking it up”, which was the instruction.
What is it with you that makes you so incapable of reasoning that someone might know what it means and also want to point out that it’s bullshit?
It doesn’t matter that interpreted literally, it’s not what happens to frogs. That’s not the point of the phrase, and certainly not the point the other commenter was making.
They were trying to talk about Microsoft’s business practices, not about what happens if you were to literally start boiling a frog. Yes, we know they aren’t fine with it, it’s extremely well-known and completely irrelevant.