In April Microsoft made news when it became a top-twenty contributor to the Linux kernel. The Redmond giant contributed over 20,000 lines of code in support of Hyper-V. This was a striking turn around. Remember, Microsoft’s CEO once described Linux as a “cancer.”

Although it contributed over twenty thousand lines of code, the Internets are now abuzz over a single line of code in hv/hv.h line 45:

  #define HV_LINUX_GUEST_ID_HI 0xB16B00B5

A Microsoft programmer assigned 0xB16B00B5 to HV_LINUX_GUEST_ID_HI. That’s a hexadecimal number whose value is 2,976,579,765. But that’s not what has the Internets all worked up. Look again. 0xB16B00B5 is 1337-speak for BIG BOOBS.