Another day, another troll tweet by the tech billionaire Elon Musk, however, this time, it was aimed at the software company Microsoft.?
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In the tweet, Musk simply tweeted ¡°Macrohard>>Microsoft¡±, making fun of the software company.?
A similar tweet was shared by Elon Musk¡¯s now ex-girlfriend Grimes although with a? bunch of NSFW images on her Twitter handle.??
What is surprising is that this came on the very day Windows XP was first introduced to the world, 20 years ago, on October 25, 2001. Was this a coincidence or something cleverly strategised?
Replying to his tweet, Elon Musk further stated, ¡°Although Teams is pretty good,¡± lauding Microsoft¡¯s video-conferencing app.?
As usual, people on Twitter replied in the most whimsically confusing ways possible.?
Some were cleverly bringing Macintosh into the conversation.
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For me, it was the first-ever Windows OS I ever used, which would be the case for most readers today. From its harmonic startup and shutdown sounds to the soundtrack to Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 that would be the go-to music file for testing speakers on a new, freshly set-up PC, it would surely make us feel nostalgic.?
Also, how can we forget the bold blue and green taskbar with the ¡®Bliss¡¯ wallpaper, which showed how Windows could be colourful and fun after the grey colour schemes on the previous iterations of Windows.?
Windows XP was a success from boot with 17 million copies getting sold in just two weeks of launch with over 400 million copies sold in the first five years of its launch.?
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My fondest memories of Windows XP was playing Space Cadet 3D Pinball game, and sometimes even Spider Solitaire, apart from playing songs on Winamp and browsing the Internet Explorer before Chrome blew my mind!