[bradleyland]

I immediately got the satire, but I think it falls flat because the premise is just silly.

Windows 7 has been out less than a year. The vast majority of computer users are either running Vista -- which, let's face it, was a failure of epic proportions -- or Windows XP. We compare what we experience. So given that Windows XP was a success (and was released in 2001), the first successful product launch for Microsoft since then came in July of last year when Windows 7 hit... yet by the author's reasoning, we're the fools for comparing OS X to Windows XP.

Right.