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by tgbrter 4053 days ago
Why don't you instead just make 10 better?
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... It goes to eleven.
For people that aren't getting the joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xgx4k83zzc
Maybe Microsoft just don't want to give it a 110%
For one second I thought there was a RFC for jokes.
Sadly, no. Given the up-and-down nature of the points to my response, my own joke was that someone who needed a pointer for what "joke" meant, given simply as a URL, might also need a pointer for what a URL means. With of course the contradiction that I gave it as a URL.
GOOD HUMOR
One of my favorites
Well possibly the point here is the double pronged attack on the fact that Mac OS stopped at X (ten) and there is a common expression 'turn it up to eleven' [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven

The flip side of the coin is that they didn't want to name themselves after a satirical skit that is emphasising the stupidity of the phrase utterer.
Wouldn't be the first, or worst, marketing whore-out to happen these days
looks like you wooshed a little bit