How Wallpapers and Kylie will help Windows 7
Windows 7 is scheduled to be released in just over a month, October 22nd. Most of the reviews have been overwhelmingly positive especially compared to how badly Vista was received. I have been running Windows 7 on an EeePC netbook for several months now, first the beta and now the Release Candidate. It’s fast, it’s stable, and it has some great new features. Microsoft has done a good job with their latest operating system. But that’s not what I think is important.
When the first Release Candidate was made available it included wallpapers that were far from Microsoft’s normal ones. One of my favorites is shown above and a few more at the bottom of the post. The full set can be found here at resolutions up to 1920×1200.
More recently Microsoft has released a series of advertisements using an adorable little girl named Kylie to promote the new OS. The five year old says Windows 7 is “snappy and re-pon-ki-ser” then shows off a slide show that uses 80′s rock.
Now, all of this might seem a little odd for Microsoft but that’s exactly my point. Apparently the corporation that has a budget the size of a small country is beginning to go by Apple’s old Think Different slogan. They’re moving away from the outlook that computers are just functional and are getting closer to Apple’s outlook that computers can be cool. As a longtime Windows user I welcome this new direction.
