The Microsoft Bear is the most famous among the mascots of the Windows 3.x (and later Windows 95) team. It was the teddy bear that one of the senior developers on the team used to carry around. He makes several cameo appearances in Windows:
A drawing of him was used as the icon (computing) for the SETDEBUG.EXE and JDBGMGR.EXE system files. The odd icon gave credibility to the jdbgmgr.exe virus hoax, claiming that the files were part of a computer virus. See SULFNBK.EXE for a similar hoax.
Several internal system Procedure_(programming)s, although having meaningful internal names, are exported from USER.EXE as BEAR NNN (where NNN is the ordinal number of the function) in his honor (and to Obfuscated code from uncautious third party software developers).
He stars , presents the nicknames of the Windows 3.1 developers. bradsi , being in charge of Windows production, is listed first ( see picture ); the three other presenters, billg , steveb , and t-bear , appear together in Special Thanks , the last section of the list.
By the time of Windows 95, the Bear had been in pretty bad shape, and he ceded his role to Microsoft Bunny and later Microsoft Piglet, the two other Windows 3.1 team mascots.
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