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Title: Microsoft up your ass?
Post by: Mickey1992 on May 06, 2003, 02:59:41 PM

Here's why.  I have always wanted to flush MS down the loo, I guess now I can.

(http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20030506/i/1052236650.3221815359.jpg)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/030506/170/3zk3j.html&e=6

Title: Microsoft up your ass?
Post by: Mickey1992 on May 13, 2003, 08:10:38 AM

(Not that anyone cared)

Umm......nevermind.

Microsoft: Internet-Ready Toilet A Hoax

POSTED: 7:20 a.m. EDT May 13, 2003

REDMOND, Wash. -- Microsoft says a company news release that said it was developing a portable toilet with Internet access, called an "i-Loo," was a hoax perpetrated by its British division.

The April 30 release, issued by the company's MSN Internet division in the United Kingdom, said Microsoft was developing a portable toilet with a wireless keyboard and an extending height-adjustable plasma screen in front of the seat. The i-Loo was to debut at festivals this summer in Britain.

The fake release generated coverage by The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press and Reuters.

A Microsoft spokeswoman has apologized for "any confusion or offense it may have caused."

Title: Microsoft up your ass?
Post by: Curval on May 13, 2003, 08:23:00 AM

Even if they really did try something like this I would never use it.  Imagine what the results of any bacteria or foreign material test would show from the keyboard.  YUCK!

Title: Microsoft up your ass?
Post by: gofaster on May 13, 2003, 09:07:49 AM

And here I was ready to set it up as my AH flightsim cockpit.

Kind of gives a new meaning to the word "cockpit" doesn't it :)

Title: Microsoft up your ass?
Post by: Syzygyone on May 13, 2003, 09:09:27 AM

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Originally posted by gofaster
And here I was ready to set it up as my AH flightsim cockpit.

Kind of gives a new meaning to the word "cockpit" doesn't it :)

Sure would make potty breaks safer. Wouldn't have to worry so much about nme 262s coming out of nowhere whilst you're AFK!:eek:

Title: Microsoft up your ass?
Post by: Fishu on May 13, 2003, 09:45:12 AM

One night and the toilets would be gone.. then sometime later found from some dumpyard, with every electronics part ripped off :D

Wouldn't be very smart project anyway :)

Title: Microsoft up your ass?
Post by: Syzygyone on May 13, 2003, 10:25:33 AM

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Originally posted by Fishu
One night and the toilets would be gone.. then sometime later found from some dumpyard, with every electronics part ripped off :D

Wouldn't be very smart project anyway :)

Methinks you sound as if you know whereof from you speaketh, methinks!