Ultimate Windows Vista Professional Master of the Universe Edition
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Two days before the keynote heard round the world, a little known billionaire named Bill Gates made a similar announcement at the now outdated trade expo CES. The purpose of Bill’s keynote was to stir (scrounge) up excitement and buzz for Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows Vista.
Okay, so let’s review. Nearly six years after the release of Mac OS X, Microsoft is dragging out its latest operating system on January 30th. It’s so massively ahead of its time, it’s going to be released in no fewer than six (6) editions, ranging in price from $200 to $400. The top edition, called Windows Ultimate and priced $100 higher than the next cheapest version, will offer a number of awesome upgrades. What exactly these will be is unknown. Instead, Microsoft announced three awesome upgrades at CES that will be part of the so-called “WaveZero” round of updates (further attack waves will occur after the January 30 release). They are:
- A program that allows you to set your background to be a video,
- A program which makes it easier to use an existing encryption feature of Vista, and,
- A Texas Hold-em game.
Gnarly, right? Even more awesome than that is Microsoft’s rather tasteless attempt at a community-based/viral marketing campaign called Show us your “Wow.”
The only thing good about that site is how it makes me feel slightly less bitter about my job.