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Posted on February 22nd, 2009 by Jon Honeyball
Something fishy about Windows 7
Been playing with the new 7022 build of Windows 7 which [cough] arrived on my desktop as a handy ISO file.
And something has been bugging me about it. Couldn’t put my finger on it. Something really just a bit out of kilter.
Then a Twitter posting by Someone Who Shall Remain Nameless inside Microsoft pointed it out. There are bubbles coming from the fish. Fish don’t breath, and certainly don’t exhale bubbles. Maybe this is just one big Windows 7 super intelligent joke.
Apparently the fish is actually a Siamese fighting fish, known as a “betta fish”. Pronounced beta.
When Windows 7 succumbs to a virus, will we see boils and skin rashes and dead fish on the bottom of the screen too?
Tags: fish, Microsoft, Windows
Posted in: Real World Computing, Windows 7
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February 23rd, 2009 at 9:47 am
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February 23rd, 2009 at 11:20 am
Oh, but bettas do blow bubbles while mating:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_nest
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Eric L is absolutely right, the betta fish regularly exhales bubbles, whenever it wants to mate – which is probably most of the time.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Bettas are also one of a few fish with a labyrinth organ, a primitive lung. In fact, Bettas need to go to the surface occasionally to take a breath of air in order to survive.
February 23rd, 2009 at 7:37 pm
It’s amazing what you learn when you’re browsing a computer magazine site. Whether I wanted to learn this is a different matter but learnt, it is.
February 23rd, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Fish certainly don’t breath. They might breathe, though. Well, some of them.
February 23rd, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Well, i am more than happy to be correct on the fish bubbling issue! You learn something new every day. I had no idea a fish did that.
Jon (typing breathely from hotel in Cannes on eve of VMWare 2009)
February 23rd, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Correct? Corrected. Its been a long couple of days. Mr Cassidy and I left london at 5.30am yesterday morning, and have driven the near 1000 miles down to Cannes. So I am a bit tired. Or something
February 24th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Betta splendens actually – someone in MS has a sense of humor
February 24th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
whats the point of this posting????