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Microsoft developer hoax backfires | |
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| Time: 14:28 EST/19:28 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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A hoax perpetrated by senior Microsoft technical staff has backfired, after Microsoft Watch's Mary Jo Foley rumbled the prank. Staff led by middleware guru Don Box "invented" a new business process language called BML that was part of a project called Boa. | ||
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| #1 By 2332 (65.221.182.2) at 7/19/2004 6:15:03 PM |
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Huh? I don't think I understand the deal here.
Some MS developers pretended that there was a language called BML and a project called BOA? Why? How is this funny if it was a joke? Man... I need more sleep cause I don't know what the hell is going on. (In the voice of Towely from South Park.) |
| #2 By 11888 (64.230.73.180) at 7/19/2004 6:41:21 PM |
| Phew. I thought I was the only one missing the joke here. |
| #3 By 135 (208.186.90.168) at 7/19/2004 11:21:40 PM |
| Well if it is a joke, they were making fun of the acronym enriched computing journalist environment. |
| #4 By 2960 (156.80.64.137) at 7/20/2004 10:34:51 AM |
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"Well if it is a joke, they were making fun of the acronym enriched computing journalist environment. "
Otherwise known as the AECJE. :) TL |
| #5 By 3339 (64.160.58.135) at 7/20/2004 1:31:03 PM |
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"Well if it is a joke, they were making fun of the acronym enriched computing journalist environment. "
Since when do the journalists invent the names and acronyms of technology built and named by programmers and developers? |
| #6 By 8062 (68.107.20.152) at 7/20/2004 5:11:38 PM |
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Two clues here gentlemen:
1) You read it in "The Register". 2) MJF |
| #7 By 3339 (64.160.58.135) at 7/20/2004 5:39:49 PM |
| BTD, everyone from Don Box to Scoble has admitted it. What exactly are you claiming is false, misleading, or inappropriate by attacking these two sources? |
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