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1. Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 12:18:03 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

   @MetalSnake Indeed they did

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 12:11:38 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Andrew

     @andrewt @MetalSnake The programmer of the phone version who is no longer associated with Microsoft says no
     https://www.chroscielski.pl/cheese-terminator-reloaded/

   • Andrew (andrewt@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 12:11:39 UTC Andrew

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     @dosnostalgic @MetalSnake This smells like a publicity stunt to me — it's around when the Windows Phone version came out, and 2015 sounds right for the "customer gets unexpected [thing]" brand of PR "news" sorry (the 00's were "boffins find equation for perfect [thing]" and the 20’s are all "badly conducted survey finds [thing]"). My guess is that Microsoft staged the whole thing and sent out a press release for overworked journalists to copy-paste into their newspapers.