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ExamForce :: Article Archive :: Newsletter Article
 The Cert Times: IT Edition Article Archive
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| Lucky 7 (B1N@RY N@T10N (A.J. Axline)) |
Windows 7 was released this month, like a bad fart in an elevator. Whoops! There I go, being all negative before giving Win7 a fair shake. In all honesty, I am one of a significant number of users who are hoping that Microsoft's new OS represents a viable and relevant successor to Windows XP.
Why? Because WinXP hit store shelves eight years ago. EIGHT. In computing years, WinXP is the Abe Vigoda of operating systems, including the fact that it is not dead.
Windows XP is arguably the most successful consumer operating system ever created. WinXP raised the bar... and then Windows Vista proceeded to limbo right under that sucker. Now, as PC users are getting ready to step into the second decade of the 21st Century, it's time for the software side of the PC to evolve, and that evolution requires a new PC OS platform, and that platform is Windows 7.
What happened to Windows Vista, you may ask? Alas, I am not a coroner. It died, simple as that. Steve Ballmer can live in denial for as long as he wants, but the bottom line is that Vista failed to capture mind share because of its inherent technical issues, as well as Microsoft's arrogant, heavy-handed marketing tactics, which are a direct reflection of Ballmer's maniacal sense of entitlement. Some pundits have commented that we are seeing a humbler side of Microsoft's CEO these days, but I maintain that Steven Anthony Ballmer does not have a humbler side. Ballmer is always going to be the guy swearing that he's going to f***ing kill Google; that Linux is a cancer that only appeals to Communists; and, that the only reason a woman is a lesbian is because he hasn't met her yet.
That said, I will actually be cheering a little for the successful proliferation of Windows 7 into the PC ecosystem. It's true that technology is (too often) about change for the sake of change, but in this instance, it's time for the face of PC computing to move on from the safe and comfortable visage of WinXP.
Happy Halloween, Cert Times readers! Here's hoping that the Great Pumpkin doesn't rise up out of your garden patch and snap your legs off with a toothy grin. But, if it does happen, make sure you post the video on YouTube.
A.J. Axline
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