What a Geek!
The date was August 24, 1995. I was sitting on my girlfriends couch doing what all guys are doing with their girlfriends at that age when in crashes her father threw the front door like a raging bull. I immediately jumped up from the couch mustering up the best “we weren’t doing anything” look I could, only to watch him dart off to the right and go flying up the stairs carrying a small blue box.
“What the hell was that all about” I asked. “Oh, he’s going to his office to install this thing he has been talking about non stop for months” she said, looking annoyed by the inerruption. “What is it?” I asked. She shrugged and said “I don’t know, something called Windows 95″. Staring at the stairs where you could almost see his smoke trail from his blazing path all I could say was
“What a Geek”
Now fast forward to 2009. Everyone of my computers has a timer on the desktop counting down to the release of Microsoft’s new Operating System Windows 7 (19 d, 18h 49m 11s at the time of this writing). No doubt I will be standing in line on release day, speeding back to the house, crashing threw the door and flying to my office to play with all of the GUI (or gooey) goodness Windows 7 has to offer.
I loved XP but that could be partly due to the fact that it was around so long, even those that didn’t like it were starting to suffer from Stockholm Syndrome by the time Microsoft offered an alternative. That made the move from XP to Vista hard for most, oh yea, and the fact that for the first year Vista was a steaming pile of crap. I did Beta testing for Vista. I begged and pleaded Microsoft to wait on releasing it as it “just wasn’t ready”. They didn’t listen to me or the hundreds of thousands of other beta tester out there and released it anyways. Vista got a bad reputation out of the gate and never recovered.
Enter Windows 7, and this time Microsoft listened. I have been Beta testing it for about six months now and it is a thing of beauty. If it were a painting it would be a Picasso, if it were a song… well you get my drift. Not only is everything easier to use, it runs faster, looks better and is the most secure Operating System on the market.
Windows 7 releases on October 22 in stores all across Canada. If your driving by that morning and you see a guy with a big Tim Horton’s Thermos and look on his eyes like it’s Christmas morning, that will be me, and I won’t blame you for thinking
“What a Geek”
