Microsoft yields to one tiny snowflake, although maybe it didn't, completely

See little Santa! Ooooh, shriek! Oooh, bawahaha!

In the spirit of Christmas, Microsoft put an itty-bitty Santa hat in the corner of a code page and, of course, one; exactly one, programmer complained, whining that it brought to mind the jackbooted Nazis who had slaughtered his grandparents and, probably, Donald trump. So Microsoft promptly caved, apologizing profusely and it sent Santa’s hat back to Macy’s. But what did they replace it with?

All pretty elaborate, when a simple “sod off, Swampy” would have done the trick, but at least there’s still some level of resistance buried low down in Microsoft’s ranks.

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