{"id":104364,"date":"2020-10-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=104364"},"modified":"2020-10-13T07:23:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T14:23:35","slug":"20201013-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20201013-00\/?p=104364","title":{"rendered":"Just for fun: Retail demo user names in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some time ago, I went to all the locales I could find and extracted the sample names that are used to help you set up an account<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just for fun, I’ll do the same for the name used by the fictitious account used by the retail demo experience<\/a>. This special mode is used when a computer is set up on a sales floor and runs an attract loop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Locale<\/th>\nEnglish name<\/th>\nName<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
ar-sa<\/td>\nArabic<\/td>\n\u200f\u200f\u0641\u0624\u0627\u062f \u062d\u0644\u0628\u064a<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
bg-bg<\/td>\nBulgarian<\/td>\nOwen May<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ca-es<\/td>\nCatalan<\/td>\nDarrin DeYoung<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
cs-cz<\/td>\nCzech<\/td>\nZden\u011bk Benda<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
da-dk<\/td>\nDanish<\/td>\nMathias Kjeldsen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
de-de<\/td>\nGerman<\/td>\nDetlef Wagner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
el-gr<\/td>\nGreek<\/td>\n\u0393\u03b9\u03ac\u03bd\u03bd\u03b7\u03c2 \u039b\u03ac\u03bc\u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
en-gb<\/td>\nEnglish (UK)<\/td>\nOwen May<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
en-us<\/td>\nEnglish (US)<\/td>\nDarrin DeYoung<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
es-es<\/td>\nSpanish (Spain)<\/td>\nLuis Serna<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
es-mx<\/td>\nSpanish (Mexico)<\/td>\nDar\u00edo D\u00edaz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
et-ee<\/td>\nEstonian<\/td>\nOwen May<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
fi-fi<\/td>\nFinnish<\/td>\nPentti Hietalahti<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
fr-ca<\/td>\nFrench (Canada)<\/td>\nFabrice Lacroix<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
fr-fr<\/td>\nFrench (France)<\/td>\nGilbert Beaulieu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
he-il<\/td>\nHebrew<\/td>\n\u200f\u200fOwen May<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
hr-hr<\/td>\nCroatian<\/td>\nOwen May<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
hu-hu<\/td>\nHungarian<\/td>\nLovas Mih\u00e1ly<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
id-id<\/td>\nIndonesian<\/td>\nWilliam Sutaji<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
it-it<\/td>\nItalian<\/td>\nEnrico Pisani<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ja-jp<\/td>\nJapanese<\/td>\n\u53e4\u6797\u7fd4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ko-kr<\/td>\nKorean<\/td>\n\uc784\ub300\uc885<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
lt-lt<\/td>\nLithuanian<\/td>\nOwen May<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
lv-lv<\/td>\nLatvian<\/td>\nOwen May<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
nb-no<\/td>\nNorwegian (Bokm\u00e5l)<\/td>\nMagnus Ekeli<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
nl-nl<\/td>\nDutch<\/td>\nFrank Reuser<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
pl-pl<\/td>\nPolish<\/td>\nRoman G\u00f3rski<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
pt-br<\/td>\nPortuguese (Brazil)<\/td>\nGuilherme Rodrigues<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
pt-pt<\/td>\nPortuguese (Portugal)<\/td>\nGabriel Cunha<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ro-ro<\/td>\nRomanian<\/td>\n\u0218tefan \u0218aguna<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ru-ru<\/td>\nRussian<\/td>\n\u041d\u0438\u043a\u0438\u0442\u0430 \u0421\u043c\u0438\u0440\u043d\u043e\u0432<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
sk-sk<\/td>\nSlovak<\/td>\nOwen May<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
sl-si<\/td>\nSlovene<\/td>\nOwen May<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
sr-latn-rs<\/td>\nSerbian<\/td>\nOwen May<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
sv-se<\/td>\nSwedish<\/td>\nViktor Larsson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
th-th<\/td>\nThai<\/td>\n\u0e0a\u0e22\u0e19\u0e15\u0e4c \u0e04\u0e07\u0e44\u0e1e\u0e28\u0e32\u0e25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
tr-tr<\/td>\nTurkish<\/td>\nCem Kaya<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
uk-ua<\/td>\nUkrainian<\/td>\nOwen May<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
vi-vn<\/td>\nVietnamese<\/td>\nTr\u1ea7n \u0110\u1ee9c<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
zh-cn<\/td>\nChinese (PRC)<\/td>\n\u5b8b\u51ac<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
zh-tw<\/td>\nChinese (Taiwan)<\/td>\n\u5289\u51a0\u5b87<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I don’t know why Owen May<\/i> is used for so many locales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A bunch of plausible but fictitious names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-104364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

A bunch of plausible but fictitious names.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}