The lighter side of Windows 7
Windows 7’s launch was serious business for Microsoft. But that’s not stopped plenty of people finding more lighthearted ways to “celebrate” the release of the system.
This photograph of a store in Tokyo on launch day has been raising a titter among the open source community. For those not in on the joke, the man who appears to be giving the thumbs up to the new system is Linus Torvalds, the man who created the kernel which is the heart of Linux-based systems. (Despite posing the picture, he decided to take a pass on buying a copy.)
Also in Japan, Burger King marked the event by producing this monstrosity. According to Endgadget, for the next week 30 customers a day in each store will be able to buy the seven-patty burger for 777 yen (around $8.50).
Apple responded to the launch with three new ads specifically targeted at Windows 7. The first, which is genuinely amusing, features flashbacks to the PC character promising that this time the new Windows will be better (culminating in him clad in Miami Vice-style threads promising that the problems of Windows 2 are a thing of the past.)
The second features a Windows XP user preparing to change systems, the punchline being that she’s switching to a Mac. And the last features a spoof news report of a Windows 7 upgrade event, the gag again being users deciding that if they’re going to have to go through the hassle of upgrading, they may as well upgrade to a Mac. I suppose one out of three isn’t a bad comedic hit rate.
The spoof videos of Microsoft’s cringeworthy Windows 7 party guides continue. The latest tells you how to have a great shindig while getting an unlicensed copy via a torrent site.
And this posting to Slashdot offers an amusing analogy in which Windows is portrayed as a psychotic ex-girlfriend whose had a makeover, almost making you forget “those nights when, for seemingly no reason at all, she would simply stop speaking to you and when you asked what was wrong she’d just spit a string of hex code at you and expect you to figure it out.”
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October 24th, 2009
” The latest tells you how to have a great shindig while getting an unlicensed copy via a torrent site.”
Getting any Windows software or any software from torrents or any other P2P …is pretty dumb. First off, besides being illegal, chances are that the software contains some “added” features like back doors, viruses, malware and trojan horses..
There ARE official torrents for Linux which are safe however if you get the torrent file from the home page of the Linux distro that you want to download.
Given the security issues, it would be much cheaper to spend the $129 for the Windows 7 upgrade in the long run.
This thing about “parties” and Windows 7 is not a Microsoft idea. Ubuntu has been having new release parties all over the globe for a few years now. I guess Microsoft has to get their “ideas” from somewhere.