I subscribe to PC World, and I was reading through the latest issue when I came across this, quite unexpectedly, and it made my jaw drop.

Of all the ways they might have chosen to illustrate their point, they chose to have someone working on a car. Of all the cars they might have chosen, they chose an old Olds. This is, what, a '64 Cutlass, or maybe a '65?

Pretty cool, whatever it is. I wonder if the author or the illustrator, Taylor Callery, is an Olds buff and figured out a way to slip one in.

 

What an insult to Olds to associate it with ms windows...

 

Hahaha so true !!!

 

Good God, I just thought it was a cool illustration. No need to wet your pants over it.

 

It is a cool illustration. I right clicked and saved it, with W7.

 

That's exactly how I look at it. It's a cool illustration, regardless. Who cares whether the article it's associated with is about Windows or anything else.

 

As frustrated I am with windows 7 and the "ribboned" office, it is an insult.
Improvements are welcomed to software but when developers have to totally redesign the wheel to make experienced users feel like newbies (even after 7 months), it is a total insult.

However picking an Olds to use in the picture was probably just a random occurrence. Nice to see they are remembered (kind of).

 

Possibly it is the thought that the Oldsmobile is a discontinued item, and so will Windows be someday soon, if MS doesn't get its act together. Both were leaders in their field, until upper management lost sight of what they were doing right, and started doing things wrong. Never thought that I would see Oldsmobile be discontinued, and to loose Pontiac as well was a major mistake within GM. Can't argue with the bean counters, since they are not like the guys that built the brand for decades, knowing what the public wanted, and how to deliver that tastefully, and with class.

 

This is an argument based on sentiment, not economic reality given the shrinking size of the market owned by GM. We can argue until doomsday the mistakes GM made or didn't make that led to the demise of these brands, but lots of brands have disappeared over the history of automobile manufacturing, and the discontinuance of Olds and Pontiac might have happened regardless of how well GM ran its operation.

Everyone ridicules the "bean counters" just by use of the term, but someone has to count the beans, and if there aren't enough beans to pay the bills, the business goes under.

 

Windows 8 is awful. Really the hardest to use operating system Microsoft has come up with yet.