Microsoft Apologies for "Big Boobs" Coding Gag | News

We hate the term "brogrammer," and so should you. However, a recent gaffe by some Microsoft coder somewhere gives a bit more evidence to the idea that a wee bit of immaturity might be lurking in the company's coding rank and file. According to a message posted by Paolo Bonzini to the (unofficial) Linux Kernel Mailing List, a small snippet of code found in Microsoft's Hyper-V – a virtualization server – was used every time a user loaded Linux within the virtual environment. The joke? The code itself, written in hexadecimal, was the string, "0xB16B00B5." Get it? "Big Boobs."