Assuming you were paying attention yesterday, by now you realize the article on Solaris and Windows 7 was complete nonsense. While I believe that Windows 7 will be highly modular, perhaps even shooting forth some subscription based ideas, it is all Microsoft as far as I know. I had to catch up to Pirillo’s bundle of April Fools jokes. And it is not like a lot of well known companies were not getting into the spirit. Google was doing their usual routine and Blizzard took it up to a notch that old school gamers will appreciate more than most of the “20-somethings” out there. I know I was in stitches!

Besides, Lockergnome has been pulling juvenile stuff like this ever since Chris instituted No Pants Fridays, which seems to have fallen by the wayside for some reason.

That said, Microsoft did have a serious win lately that despite what some people might think, I believe to be quite cool - Surface coming to AT&T retail stores. To a large degree, this is a logical venue and I wish both companies oodles of luck with it. Another thing I wanted to point out is something I stumbled unto here recently. It is a place where average users such as yourself can take Windows Vista for a test drive. It’s a great idea in lieu of some sort of a LiveCD and frankly, leaves Apple as the only OS not providing some sort of try it before you commit option in my opinion.

What do you think? Do offerings like the Vista Test Drive, Linux LiveCds, etc interest you as a user? Or instead, are you someone that must try it installed before even giving it a second thought? Hit the comments and tell me what you think about this issue.