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Microsoft’s new technologies: BOA and BML came out of alcohol ;)

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This is hilarious. Don Box, Clemens Vasters, and others had a few brews which let them down the path of a high school prank :)

The victim was Mary Jo Foley, a writer for Microsoft Watch (and formally of eWeek, and other mags).

The guys created fake acronyms and technologies such as:

  • BOA: Business Oriented Aspects/Architecture. Favourite quote: “What I like about Boa is that it doesn’t constrict you.”
  • BML: Business Markup Language. XML for MBAs
  • Indigo Marks

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Microsoft developer hoax backfires

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