Win 7 Fighting Fish…

So why is the default screen wallpaper on the Win 7 beta a picture of fighting fish?

Microsoft’s reason for choosing the Siamese fighting fish for Windows 7 was rather simple. The wallpaper is included only in the Beta version of Windows 7, and not in the previous three milestone developments, because this very popular freshwater fish is actually known as betta.

More details at http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Story-of-the-Windows-7-Beta-Fish-101857.shtml

Windows 7 Beta Release

I have been running Win 7 for a while now on a spare laptop, having acquired it through a torrent site, but MS have said at CES that they are going to be releasing legit beta versions on the 9th January – take a look here.  There is a feel out there that MS were behind the original torrent releases anyway, but it’s nice for the tech community to get a "legit" look in.

So far it looks good, but whilst there are a lot of neat features, I can’t help but feel that it’s kind of Vista service pack X.

There is a lot of negativity out there about Vista, and a lot of it I feel is unjustified and due more to hearsay than people actually seeing it, (google the Mojave project!), and I feel that Win 7 is probably little more than a new name and a bit of spit and polish to improve sales.

Would that stop me from upgrading when released – no of course not! I’m a computing geek and will always upgrade!!