Microsoft Amiga

Retro is in. At the meantime, Microsoft struggles against Apple’s new world. Apple has style and Apple has fans. That’s everything Microsoft Windows doesn’t have. Why not bring some Retro into Windows and make it stylish again, win some fans.

Here is my new idea, how to turn Microsoft Windows into a fan product: The new Windows OS should have a new name. Get rid of this controversially discussed and hated name “Windows”.

My suggestion. Buy the brand name Amiga and call it “Microsoft Amiga”. And Microsoft should announce it loudly: “Microsoft gives up Windows and brings up the new Amiga OS”. Of course, the new Amiga OS wouldn’t differ much from the original Windows. They’d just put some new Amiga elements in like the new Amiga-Symbol, Amiga+M-Function (instead of ALT+TAB). But the core would still be Windows. The Windows user wouldn’t care what name this thing has anyway. They never did. All the contracts with all the manufacturers would be the same, too. I mean, it’s just a new label, that’s all about it.

But here is the effect: It would be the most discussed topic in the history of Microsoft. Some would think Microsoft’s gone crazy, others that they are genius. It would be the greatest fan product of all time. Imagine what kind of discussions within the community this would cause. Totally amazed ex Amiga fans, who’d carry the word to the world causing the biggest Social Media Impact ever. Microsoft wouldn’t have to do much work, neither. Let the community do the work for them. Some would hate it, of course. But others would love it. “You see, Amiga was the best, even Microsoft uses it now”, they would say. It would be Retro, it would be Social Media, it would be viral. Imagine the chaos in the community. The controversy. The fame.

• “Auf Gravenreuths Homepage fehlt das Impressum.”
• “Die Linke TAZ hat Gravenreuth umgebracht.”
• “Nachruf auf YouTube gefunden: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqSyY_M9a5A“
• “Über Tote soll man ja nur Gutes Sagen, in diesem Sinne: Es ist gut, dass er tot ist.”
• “Abmahnwelle fordert erstes Todesopfer!”
• “Jetzt hat er sich auch noch der Haftstrafe entzogen.”
• “Vorschlag für den Grabstein: ‘Für immer OFFLINE’”
• “Es wurden bereits Killerspiele bei ihm gefunden.”
• “Das jüngste Gericht wird sich jetzt mit ihm befassen…. “
• “Was würde George Lucas sagen? ‘Mit etwas Maske und einem Beatmungsgerät kriegt man das wieder hin…’”

Quellen: heise.de, golem.de, u.v.m.

… die Behörden meldeten schließlich, dass mein PC abgefangen worden war. Piraten, sogenannte Raiders, hatten den PC tagelang im Auge. Schließlich hatten sie den UPS-Menschen im Highway 12 in Taiwan brutal angehalten. Der UPS-Mann war den Piraten völlig ausgeliefert. Die sonst um den PC stehenden Bodyguards wurden nämlich von mir nicht mitbestellt. Die Warnung hatte ich übersehen.