Microsoft reveals how the Windows ninja cat came to life

In March last year I managed to obtain a Windows ninja cat sticker for my laptop. I had been trying to track down the sticker for a few months before that after seeing it appear on Microsoft employee's laptops at Windows events. It's a ninja cat riding a fire-breathing unicorn, all while waving a Windows flag. At the time, it was a single identifier of a cultural shift that was underway at Microsoft, and a sign that the company was cool again.

KC Lemson, who many Microsoft employees speak highly of, is the mastermind behind the Windows ninja cat, and she's finally agreed to tell her side of how it came to life. Writing in Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing blog, Lemson reveals that the ninja cat started off life, like many things at...

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