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Win­dows 7: “I’m up here, boys!” by tenzig_112 (213387) on Thurs­day Octo­ber 22,

I get the impres­sion that the Win­dows 7 launch is a lot like see­ing an old girl­friend sud­denly show up on your doorstep want­ing to get back together. She’s had some work done, appar­ently: stom­ach sta­pling to take off some of the weight, breast aug­men­ta­tion, and a rad­i­cal nose job to make her look as much like your cur­rent girl­friend as med­ical sci­ence will allow.

She’s pretty, of course, almost too pretty. She still wears far too much makeup and car­ries that des­per­ate look in her eyes. The fra­grant haze around her is the per­fume she overuses to mask the scent of failure.

But stand­ing there in that low-cut top, you’d almost for­get for a moment what a psy­cho she was– how she used to shut down in the mid­dle of a date and for­get every­thing you were talk­ing about and how she was only happy when you were buy­ing her things. You’d almost for­get about car­ry­ing around her legacy bag­gage or those nights when, for seem­ingly no rea­son at all, she would sim­ply stop speak­ing to you and when you asked what was wrong she’d just spit a string of hex code at you and expect you to fig­ure it out.

You com­plained about her for years before finally decid­ing to get rid of her, and here she is again. Though, some­how she seems like a com­pletely dif­fer­ent per­son now.

“I’m up here,” she says when she catches you star­ing at her chest.

Tempted though you may be, you know that over time she’ll get bored and slow down on you just like she always does. And then you’ll be right back where you started: trapped. She keeps you by con­vinc­ing you that you don’t have a choice. You’re just not smart enough for one option or rich enough to afford the other.

“But I’m dif­fer­ent now,” she says, bat­ting her eyes inno­cently. “I’ve changed.”

Indeed she has. Appar­ently, she’s really into Cabala now or some­thing like that. It’s helped her dis­cover loads of untapped poten­tial in her­self. But it also means that you’ll have to buy all new fur­ni­ture to fit with her under­stand­ing of fang shui. That’s not the only change she has in store for you. The minute you let her move in, she’ll have a new alarm sys­tem put in that suc­ceeds only in pre­vent­ing your friends from com­ing over on poker night.

She doesn’t love you, but she doesn’t hate you, either. The truth is that she couldn’t care less one way or the other. She’s here because she doesn’t want to be alone. Like all human beings, espe­cially those well past their prime, she wants to feel wanted and, after a string of lost jobs and bad invest­ments, she needs a place to stay.

But all in all, she’s OK. She’s a seven. She’ll do, I guess.

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