Microsoft may not participate in April Fools Day anymore, but in the past, the company made fun of itself on April 1, with a number of interesting announcements and even code releases.
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T-Mobile announced Phone BoothE today, a soundproof booth for making calls. As the Un-carrier's CEO John Legere says in a video, "You know it's real because we tacked an E on the end of the name."
Microsoft is seemingly not too fond of April Fools' Day jokes, and its teams are being discouraged from engaging in any public-facing pranks this year, according to a leaked internal memo.
Many users found the LineageOS April Fools' Day prank rather unamusing. The team has realized its mistake, citing "bad taste", and has now issued a formal apology on its website to its users.
It was a blatant Snapchat rip-off when Instagram debuted its Stories feature several months. Now, Snapchat is borrowing from Instagram by debuting something new as part of its April Fools' joke.
April 1st, 2014 was, as always, one of the more interesting days to spend surfing the Internet as lots of tech companies decided to have fun, but one prank went a bit too far.
Nokia jumps into the April Fool's Day mood with the "announcement" of the Windows Phone-based Nokia 5AM-TH1N6 Constellation microwave oven, complete with a touchscreen that can be used with oven mitts
Twitter's new April Fools' service will help users having difficulty keeping their tweets to the 140-character limit imposed by the social network, as vowels are being removed except for a premium.
Microsoft's April Fools' Day activities continue today with the "announcement" of the Do Not Tracksuit, which is designed to keep people from being tracked in both the real and virtual worlds.
