Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)

OuterVale

Users scare me.

mrosenbjerg

Raymond Chen is my favorite MS blog writer

teekert

Another example: [0] Have to say this never would have occurred to me. There are also examples of US people being offended by scenes considered harmless in other cultures, ie the Totoro bathtub scene [1], search for "family bathing scene". I guess if this hologram offended people, there must be some nice stories about Nirvana's Nevermind (1991). [0] https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-butt... [1] https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/my-neighbour-totoro-10-things-di...

jb1991

So what was the government that complained?

yreg

This article includes the photo of the (clothed) hologram (it's the third image). https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/038-design...

lukasbm

Why should the govt remain nameless?

jck86

Red Moon Desert is now my wallpaper for the rest of the week. Looking at it from a distance indeed may raise some brows.

kleiba2

The same government should sue all new mothers: how dare they deliver babies into this world completely naked !!!

wartywhoa23

> Until we got a complaint from a government (who shall remain nameless for obvious reasons) that was upset with Windows 95 because it depicted naked children. How dare you violate the government's exclusive right to naked children!

ttyyzz

I must say that "But it makes me wonder about the mental state of our beta testers [...]" cought me off guard while drinking coffee

stefs

years ago my father got a decomissioned, wiped clean notebook from work and asked me to set it up for him. i didn't want to shell out a hundred bucks for windows, so i suggested trying linux (ubuntu) and he agreed. "intrepid ibex" was installed without issues. a few weeks later i asked him if everything was ok and how he liked it, and he had no complaints, except one: he didn't like the edgy skull on the desktop wallpaper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_version_history#/media/...

artisinal

How do I view the collectors edition Windows XP without Googling “naked baby” ? Did this comment already put me on a list?

pelagicAustral

They should have told them to gtfo and use Slackware then.

sneak

What is an “obscene body part”? If this body part is obscene, shouldn’t the author do the moral thing and remove his own?

khazhoux

This is why large companies should employ a few pedophiles to run things like this by them first. Long term, much savings.

globular-toast

I was watching YouTube the other day and it was talking about Nirvana's Nevermind album, showed the album cover but with a square censoring part of it. In these cases it really is the censor themselves who is debauched. Reminds me of the classic story where Samuel Johnson left out some rude words from his dictionary. He was congratulated for having left them out, to which he is said to have quipped "I congratulate you on being able to look them up!"

srvmshr

Raymond Chen's articles are true wealth of contemporary tech-lore. My favorite is the one where a user reported error on Flight Simulator map [0] and it escalated all the way up to Bill Gates & the then chief of FS division. [0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170418-00/?p=95...

luciana1u

the ubuntu logo is a skull and the windows logo is four little windows and somehow both are accurate descriptions of the people who use them