Windows 7
A first look at Windows 7 will be given by Microsoft in October. Based on the hugely popular and widely acclaimed Windows Vista, the new operating system promises end users even more software and hardware incompatibilities, longer boot-up and shutdown times, and a new colour—neon pink—for the much-loved ‘blue screen of death’ that has been an integral component of Windows since the very beginning.
“We thought it time to camp it up a little,” said a senior developer. “The neon pink screen of death will still offer users absolutely no explanation as to why their machines have died when trying to use them, and we think the new colour will significantly reduce incidents of people throwing their laptops out of tenth-floor windows. Because it’s such a nice colour. And ignorance continues to be bliss.”
