Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 31, 2023

Wait couple years until people from Google start attending these parties. Icicles will be forming on the ceiling.

If you go back to the original run of this comic — Dec 14, 1999 — you will notice they aged Bernie in the reprint by graying his hair.

Even then …

Micro-Evil inside!

At least there’s self-awareness.

Ice forms on one’s desktop, now

That’s Sal Doonesbury’s college roommate in Panel 4, right?

When I was a network admin, much of my job was getting their operating systems and programs working properly. I used to joke that I should send Bill a Xmas card each year.

If this comic were made today, Murgatroy would say they work for the site now known as X.

Duke entered the room?

He sprouts fangs in the next panel

“Heavens to Murgatroyd… Heavens to Murgatroyd… Come in Murgatroyd…”

I liked Bernie’ original appearance, where he materialized suddenly with a bang and a puff of smoke. “Hi, I’m your lab partner.”

Happy Halloween everyone!

If you can’t pay cash for a merger you have no business merging.

Six months after the merger, they sneak-layoff 20 to 25 percent of the force and hope nobody notices.

Microsoft and Google are just tools. Amazon owns and runs IT and the world.

“Do only profitable evil”

DUD.

Wow, 1995 was the birth of the evil empire.

Like they need another start-up to engulf before they become real competition.

Murgatroy must be a real company guy. Even his initials (“M. S.”) stand for MicroSoft.

It’s 9:33 Eastern as I write this, and many of the comics have not yet changed from yesterday… too much Halloween last night?

Ummm I am a nice guy who worked for Microsoft for 22 years. We weren’t evil at all. We just made an OS that became dominate because of licensing requirements. Computer companies wanted our OS since the other ones on the market were nothing like ours.