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Redmond Delivers Another Big POS

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In 1996, Microsoft got together with a group of companies that included NCR, Epson, and Fujitisu to produce OLE for POS (abbreviated OPOS), which stands for Object Linking and Embedding for Point of Sale.

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Comments (7)

tharik ·
Oh, point of sale. I see.
bigg ·
> Oh, point of sale. I see.

No, it means piece of sh**.
bigg ·
> It means both.

Maybe, but with Microsoft, it always means piece of sh**.
TxtEdMacs ·
Please your language is offensive. Moreover, I do not like smelly checks.

YBT
hkwint ·
sh** is an usual abreviation for 'piece of shell' I guess, like bash, csh, zsh, or probably in this case, msh.

Because if it refers to stinking sh, it would not be "Point of sh**" but "Pile of sh". But if it isn't "point" but "pile", then the discussion becomes pointless.

POintlesS software, that's it! Explains why they don't have "point slash" to execute their software but the "exe"-file extension, probably designed to run their pointless software in a pointless way.
TxtEdMacs ·
Quoting: [...] designed to run their pointless software in a pointless way.
Run Windows carelessly and you will get the point - more like a dagger to the heart. Or as others would say, ... you have been shafted. That's my guess what the sh* signifies.

YBT

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