Something fishy about Windows 7

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

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?