Windows 7 wasn’t my idea

The latest Windows TV campaign seems to have been going for years and shows no signs of abating. It consists of random, deluded, ‘normal’ (though usually cool and good looking – possibly they’re actors or models) people claiming they had ‘an idea’ for a new Windows component – like watching TV on your laptop (couldn’t you do this years ago?) or being able to see all your windows at once (didn’t Apple do this years ago?).

The ads typically end with someone saying “I’m a PC and Windows 7 was my idea.” But what gets me is that these random, normal, deluded people are actually admitting to having a Windows idea. I mean, how embarrassing. Isn’t this like admitting you stole a TV, broke a window, voted Conservative or worked for Enron (even if you didn’t)?

I mean, Windows is crap, right? It’s the ugliest, clunkiest, least-userfriendly operating system ever (even if, ever since its beginnings, it’s tried to emulate the Mac OS as near as possible without copyright infringement). And its applications – don’t get me started; I hate them all. And these people are admitting/pretending to have had a hand in it. On TV. Shouldn’t they be arrested and put on trial for crimes against humanity?