Microsoft mercifully puts an end to April Fools' Day gags

Fun in tech really died when they killed off the Easter Eggs. Excel used to have its own embedded flight simulator and engineers got a place to sign their names. In XL95 it was the Hall of Tortured Souls, a Doom like room you could explore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK0M74E8PS4

Corporations hate things that make us human, humour, ambiguity, sex and emotion.

Unless they are monetising them.

The really simple solution is to only have the gag for non- corporate accounts. Then again a lot of people (myself included) use their personal email for buisness. Yet people also use non-domain windows licenses for buisness use and get angry when updates are automatically installed.

I think this is just part of the trend of tech companies becoming more corporate and traditional as expectations increase.

April fools, Microsoft is a very hip company. /s

While I totally agree with this, I think it’s none the less an example of becoming just another part of the economy rather than being s special part of the economy.

I.e. tech is mainstream and diffuse and not as niche as it used to be in its own economic orbit.

I usually avoid the Internet on April 1.

Another thing Microsoft tries to ruin