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Microsoft wants to hide the 'Sign out' button in Windows 11 behind a Microsoft 365 ad (www.neowin.net)

submitted 7 months ago by Frellwit@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's a widely-understood phrase/metaphor. Nobody is saying Microsoft literally boils millions of frogs.

What is it with Redditors/Lemmings taking a turn of phrase, interpreting it extremely literally, and completely missing the point?

[–] oo1@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

That's what the win XP search dog was for.
They'd send it out hunting for frogs so that they can boil them all.

Bill Gates first programme was a reverse frogger game, he'd get to drive the cars and score get points for squishing frogs.
I think it was called Grand Theft Amphibian or something. The dude just really hates frogs.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Autism, personally speaking.
I knew it was a metaphor, but it's also a lie and does not actually happen.
That's actually the result of "looking it up", which was the instruction.

What is it with you that makes you so incapable of reasoning that someone might know what it means and also want to point out that it's bullshit?

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

It doesn't matter that interpreted literally, it's not what happens to frogs. That's not the point of the phrase, and certainly not the point the other commenter was making.

They were trying to talk about Microsoft's business practices, not about what happens if you were to literally start boiling a frog. Yes, we know they aren't fine with it, it's extremely well-known and completely irrelevant.