Just checked out Computerworld's commemoration article re MS Windows after 25 years, with pictures of its 11 versions starting with 1985's Windows 1.0, 1987's Windows 2.0, 1990's Windows 3.0, 1993's Windows NT 3.1, 1995's Windows 95, 1998's Windows 98, 2000's Windows 2000 and Windows ME, 2001's Windows XP, 2006's Vista and finally 2009's Windows 7.

A few things I thought of after reading it:

And here I was thinking the Java / MS wars were over, and we had therefore lost an interesting rivalry. Until I saw this.

It gets NSFW at around 2:45, so careful!

This latest adventure in PC repair started when Jill's cousin Tessa asked me to fix her Acer Aspire One Netbook, which was exhibiting virus infected behavior. A quick thorough scan in Safe Mode using PCCillin's web - based virus scan revealed the culprit.

First of all, let me tell you I've never been excited about anything in a long time. 4 years ago, I made a post on my old blog re how I thought Google would eventually release their own OS. Obviously that didn't happen immediately, but I never gave up on the idea because it always made sense to me that they should. They certainly have the resources plus the following to get it going, and after 4 years they've developed even more web apps that a centralized app, such as an os, just to connect to these would make sense.

And to me, that's what it's all about. Which surprises me that so much news about Google's OS has it pitted against Microsoft, which is beside the point if not completely outside it altogether.