Microsoft - "The EU was going to sue us over that"

SeanW

No, not over some allegation of anti-competitive practice, but

... wait for it ...

using an altered version of the Euro symbol in early versions of the Comic Sans font ...
you can read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Sans

basically Microsoft had a cartoonish eye in the top part of the Euro symbol, in keeping with the cartoonish nature of the font, but they had to scrap it because the European Union would have sued their asses back to the ghetto.

:mad::mad::mad:


There are only three words that I can think of to respond to THAT. W. T. F!!!

If I needed any more evidence that the European Union gov't is a pointless, counter productive waste of resources that is a danger to everything good in the world, I would say I just found it.

donvito99

The sky is blue.

shopaholic01

You're a tad obsessed with the euro, any particular reason?

keith16

Anytime I see someone using that Comic Sans font, I immediately lose all respect for them.

GLaDOS

Anyone who uses comic sans should be sued

SeanW

shopaholic01 wrote: »

You're a tad obsessed with the euro, any particular reason?

Not really, it's just that this particular bit struck me as being infantile, bizarre, inexplicable and incomprehensible. Not to mention just plain silly.

Or, just another day in Brussels. :rolleyes:

MadsL

<font=comicsans>
So sue me!
</font=comicsans>

Yakult

SeanW wrote: »

There are only three words that I can think of to respond to THAT. W. T. F!!!

Theyz look like letters to me, boy.

oppenheimer1

SeanW wrote: »

No, not over some allegation of anti-competitive practice, but

... wait for it ...

using an altered version of the Euro symbol in early versions of the Comic Sans font ...
you can read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Sans

basically Microsoft had a cartoonish eye in the top part of the Euro symbol, in keeping with the cartoonish nature of the font, but they had to scrap it because the European Union would have sued their asses back to the ghetto.
:mad::mad::mad:


There are only three words that I can think of to respond to THAT. W. T. F!!!

If I needed any more evidence that the European Union gov't is a pointless, counter productive waste of resources that is a danger to everything good in the world, I would say I just found it.

And why wouldn't the ECB want to protect the integrity of the currency? If people think the currency is a joke, then it loses credibility. In any case the ECB didn't sue, but MS decided on its own bat that it was a bad idea.


If Microsoft want to make a mockery of any currency, let them put cartoon eyes in the dollar symbol.

shopaholic01

SeanW wrote: »

Not really, it's just that this particular bit struck me as being infantile, bizarre, inexplicable and incomprehensible. Not to mention just plain silly.

Or, just another day in Brussels. :rolleyes:

But your signature is a link to a site to track euro bills. Do you enter the serial number of your notes? I'd rather a day in Brussels.

TeddyTedson

In Soviet Russia there is no euro!

Annasopra

TeddyTedson wrote: »

In Soviet Russia there is no euro!

That's nice.

Peregrine

Times New Roman is where it's at.

endacl

keith16 wrote: »

Anytime I see someone using that Comic Sans font, I immediately lose all respect for them.

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/127/274/1fde3_COMIC-SANS.jpg

1ZRed

Fūckers have plenty more money where that came from, couldn't care less about Microsoft tbh

TeddyTedson

mango salsa wrote: »

That's nice.

I guess, but in Soviet Russia, there is no nice

(I'll stop now)

whirlpool

Slightly off topic, but I've never understood the anti-Comic Sans brigade. What is sooo particularly repulsive about it? It's just a bleedin font; it hardly warrants the hateful energy people seem to have about it.

Peregrine

endacl wrote: »

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/127/274/1fde3_COMIC-SANS.jpg

Don't use Comic Sans.

endacl

whirlpool wrote: »

Slightly off topic, but I've never understood the anti-Comic Sans brigade. What is sooo particularly repulsive about it? It's just a bleedin font; it hardly warrants the hateful energy people seem to have about it.

Bunnies.

MadsL

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

And why wouldn't the ECB want to protect the integrity of the currency? If people think the currency is a joke, then it loses credibility. In any case the ECB didn't sue, but M$ decided on its own bat that it was a bad idea.


If Micro$oft want to make a mockery of any currency, let them put cartoon eyes in the dollar symbol.

FYP.

Tsk, youngsters.

Firefox11

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

And why wouldn't the ECB want to protect the integrity of the currency? If people think the currency is a joke, then it loses credibility. In any case the ECB didn't sue, but MS decided on its own bat that it was a bad idea.


If Microsoft want to make a mockery of any currency, let them put cartoon eyes in the dollar symbol.

To be honest you would think Microsoft would be used to bad ideas. Windows 8 being there latest one.:pac:

YFlyer

TeddyTedson wrote: »

In Soviet Russia there is no euro!

Soviet Russia sue Microsoft

my my my

i caught up with a group of friends who are older than me and they reckons the eu is trying to id us for buying fagsm it's not even that they just want he money, its safe if u have to get them , if your with a group of people who want to be cool oy youd still want o to smoke

MadsL

my my my wrote: »

i caught up with a group of friends who are older than me and they reckons the eu is trying to id us for buying fagsm it's not even that they just want he money, its safe if u have to get them , if your with a group of people who want to be cool oy youd still want o to smoke

Errrm.

Down with fagsm?

danniemcq

keith16 wrote: »

Anytime I see someone using that Comic Sans font, I immediately lose all respect for them.

Even the scientists that worked on the LHC when they found the proof of the Higgs?

http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/4/3136652/cern-scientists-comic-sans-higgs-boson

super_furry

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=07052007

_Kaiser_

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

And why wouldn't the ECB want to protect the integrity of the currency? If people think the currency is a joke, then it loses credibility.

You mean it isn't? Latest €5 note certainly looks/feels like Monopoly money...

(Slightly more serious response..)

I think the last 5/6 years of the Euro in Ireland and the financial cost to not only the current generation but our kids, as well as the effect it's had on emigration, families and our domestic economy and politicians ("the EU made us do it!") will prove to be the ultimate "joke" on Ireland in the long run Not to mention the preceding 10 years where the local interests of Germany fuelled a credit bubble that our gombeen politicians were only to happy/stupid to use for politicial ends with "giveaway" budgets and convincing the masses that they might as well commit suicide if they weren't going to "get on the property ladder" :rolleyes:

The EU should have remained a trading block (the former EEC). Trying to force an ever increasing number of nations - most of which were blowing the crap out of the other half not 70 years ago - to work together politically when there's so many social, cultural (not even going to mention places like Turkey joining up and the effect that'll likely have) and domestic political differences was NEVER going to work.

The only question now is when will the entire mess collapse and what'll be left afterwards

Sky King

mango salsa wrote: »

That's nice.

No, they use the Euro in Nice.

lkionm

Sky King wrote: »

No, they use the Euro in Nice.

I think it would be nice if I had my own euros

conorhal

At this stage, everthing about that clown-shoes currency should be written in comic sans......

Gummy Panda

SeanW wrote: »

If I needed any more evidence that the European Union gov't is a pointless, counter productive waste of resources that is a danger to everything good in the world, I would say I just found it.

so the EU has done nothing good?

Capt'n Midnight

First of all it's Microsoft.

Had they been an EU company they would have been broken up long ago under anti-competition laws. Skating on thin ice really and Microsoft keep taking the píss.

There is also the whole issue of copyright and just exactly who owns the euro symbol (hint: not microsoft)


Also I have no sympathy for them at all because they removed the Buddist swastika from windings by making it a "critical update" rather than an option. Of course they left in other symbols whit might be considered offensive like the crescent moon and star of David. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/02/11/ms_tears_swastika_from_roof/

tritium

I find it hard to sympathise with a company like Microsoft in an argument about how they may or may not use someone else's intellectual property.

General General

Is there an all seeing eye over the dollar sign in comic sans?

SeanW

Kaiser2000 wrote: »

I think the last 5/6 years of the Euro in Ireland and the financial cost to not only the current generation but our kids, as well as the effect it's had on emigration, families and our domestic economy and politicians ("the EU made us do it!") will prove to be the ultimate "joke" on Ireland in the long run Not to mention the preceding 10 years where the local interests of Germany fuelled a credit bubble that our gombeen politicians were only to happy/stupid to use for politicial ends with "giveaway" budgets and convincing the masses that they might as well commit suicide if they weren't going to "get on the property ladder" :rolleyes:

The EU should have remained a trading block (the former EEC). Trying to force an ever increasing number of nations - most of which were blowing the crap out of the other half not 70 years ago - to work together politically when there's so many social, cultural (not even going to mention places like Turkey joining up and the effect that'll likely have) and domestic political differences was NEVER going to work.

The only question now is when will the entire mess collapse and what'll be left afterwards

This ^^^^^^^^^^^ I had a big reply typed (it got lost) up but Kaiser made most of my points

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

And why wouldn't the ECB want to protect the integrity of the currency? If people think the currency is a joke, then it loses credibility. In any case the ECB didn't sue, but MS decided on its own bat that it was a bad idea.

The same ECB that caused an economic and (in Greeces case) humanitarian catastrophe by jamming Germany/Northern Europe and peripheral countries into the same currency, which was always going to fit the needs of only one of those groups?

Or the same ECB that was critical and instrumental in ensuring that Ireland did not attempt to have an Icelandic style recovery, so now we have to carry €70 billion in bank debt via the soverign, and all we have to show for it is a non-functional banking system?

The International Monetary Fund was Ireland's best friend throughout the Troika process (lending money at the lowest rates and advocating that haircuts be imposed on bank bondholders) and you know you're in serious trouble when that happens.

Suffice to say I didn't think my opinion of the so called "European" institutions could possibly get any lower.

But because this **** fit they threw over a light hearted, humorous change in a comical font, the degree to which that strikes me as petty, small and mean spirited has made me think even more poorly of them. Which was actually quite difficult.

shopaholic01 wrote: »

But your signature is a link to a site to track euro bills. Do you enter the serial number of your notes? I'd rather a day in Brussels.

Yes, as a hobby. But do not mistake this for approval of the currency as an idea or any kind of goodwill towards the so-called "European" institutions in Brussels and Strasbourg.

UCDVet

whirlpool wrote: »

Slightly off topic, but I've never understood the anti-Comic Sans brigade. What is sooo particularly repulsive about it? It's just a bleedin font; it hardly warrants the hateful energy people seem to have about it.

It's popular and people like it.

So, cooler, more knowledgeable people, who appreciate the finer things in life....decided it was a sin against humanity.

Then it became 'cool' to hate Comic Sans - so more people started to hate it.

Now everyone hates it.

In another year, edgy art students will start using it 'Ironically'.