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Winner of Microsoft plane caption contest

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Friday, 15 May 2009, 17:10

FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS folks, because the jury is back on last week's caption competition. We asked readers to come up with their best captions to go with the following images of a recently spotted "microsoft plane".

M1

Not only were our readers more than up for the challenge, the responses we got were so good, we felt compelled to choose not one, but three winners... two runways up and one Ultimate Win.

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In Third place, we've picked Jonny Allen with his Pilot's paperclip terror:

"It looks like you're flying a plane!
Would you like help?

O Get help with flying the plane

O Just fly the plane without help

[] Dont show me this tip again"

In Second place, we thINQ Steve Loveridge deserves a mention for suggesting that:

"When you press the 'Eject' button, you get an annoying yellow triangle asking you 'Are you sure you want to exit this programme, any passengers you haven't saved may be lost?'"

But in First place, and for sheer effort as well as wit, we've chosen Shockproof Paul, who didn't just send us one caption, he sent us 10. Below are a selection of his best:

"American Digital Rights Internet Airline (ADRIA) is the first airline to use the new Microsoft powered dual-core-engines on all of their planes. In order to fly on one of these planes, you will be required to board the plane using one of the Bill Gates numbered 5, 6 or 7. Support for gates 1 - 4 has been removed, therefore, any passenger who boards using these gates will not be given any help when the plane crashes.

"Passengers will be looked after during the flight by our three sexy victorian cute hostesses (svchost for short), System, Local and Network. Any attempt at interfering with one of the hostesses will cause your flight to be grounded within 60 seconds.

"We also have a medic onboard every flight called Dr Watson who will come to your assistance whether you want him to or not.

"All flights are strictly PC and passengers are prohibited from bringing any apples on board but meals may be ordered from the Start menu at any time.

"Any pirates found onboard will be thrown out over China and any penguins found onboard will be safely partitioned off to the cargo bay.

"Students and teachers can use the onboard Office suite at a cost of £99, all other passengers will be charged an arm and a leg." µ

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Jim come over here. This is whats wrong, It's running Vista! and the WGA went out

posted by : Oliver, 15 May 2009 Complain about this comment
Ping Test that Boing....

yOU kANT fLY w/o SP1 installed.

Plane takes off, three feet above ground, airplane simply freezes in place & remains there.

GET BETA TICKETS...

Microsoft 7 Flys in german, japense, spanish & someother display character update, wigglie one.

First Class:Media Center.
Trash Class:Media Player.

ITS' PIRATE SHIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

posted by : vondrashek, 15 May 2009 Complain about this comment
Another

"How YOU doin'?"

posted by : g44, 15 May 2009 Complain about this comment
Windows RG!!

The ultimate version of windows -
http://www.deanliou.com/WinRG/

You cannot get any better than the "Really Good" edition.

(Yes, click the flash demo button to launch the app, autoplay got shot)

posted by : Someone special, 15 May 2009 Complain about this comment
Mmm..

I really have to stop reading the INQ.

posted by : dzx, 16 May 2009 Complain about this comment
No fly

Are you sure it's a good idea to put Vista in this when we've never got it to take off ?

posted by : John, 17 May 2009 Complain about this comment
Hmmm....

"Where do you want to go today?"

posted by : PeriSoft, 17 May 2009 Complain about this comment
ha

"Uh oh, it looks like it is a Microsoft WINDOWS plane... you just know that, sooner or later, it's going to crash"

posted by : Nick, 18 May 2009 Complain about this comment
helpful...

"There are unused controls in your cockpit. Would you like to run the cockpit clean up wizard to clean up your cockpit?"

posted by : mark, 19 May 2009 Complain about this comment
The first place is hilarious

I understood it and it was hilarious.

posted by : Smalls, 19 May 2009 Complain about this comment
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