Shout out to the time #Microsoft invented a genuinely cool peer-to-peer song sharing feature for the #Zune
and then unironically, with a straight face, called it “squirting”
As in “hey [your name], squirt me that hot new song you like”
Continuing Microsoft’s long tradition, which lives to this day, of using a dart board of the worst possible words to name its products and features, like, 95% of the time
@chartier Wow, I had really suppressed that memory.
@jackbrewster @jwisser I mean. At the time I think it looked awful too. Buuuuut
To give MS the rare feather in its cap, we *do* have tastefully designed brown gadgets and tools these days. One *could* argue, if they want, that the brown Zune may have been ahead of its time.
However, I do not want to argue that. 😆
@chartier The Zune itself was also a perfectly decent product. But… what the fuck is a Zune?
Bless the heart of the naïve marketing intern who 'came up' with this term, and who obviously used Bing instead of Google when making sure it hadn't been used to describe anything before...
@boelder Haha I dig the idea that Bing was the reason that made it through
