...and so it begins.<p>The problem with these are they are (slightly) amusing for the tech folks but absolutely confusing for normal people. I played the video and told my wife to watch to see her reaction. She didn't laugh or smirk, she just said "What the hell is that" and we back to reading her book.
Nice, but very subtle, dig at Microsoft. For those of you not following, "Windows Blue" is the codename for the next update to Windows: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8#Windows_Blue_update" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8#Windows_Blue_update</a>
Blue...<p>41 Shades of blue [1]<p>Blue Fav Icon [2]<p>And most obviously the new OS being developed up the Pacific coast [3]<p>Anything else?<p>[1] <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/business/01marissa.html?pagewanted=3&_r=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/business/01marissa.html?pa...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.neowin.net/news/noticed-googles-new-favicon-yet-google-goes-all-out-on-blue" rel="nofollow">http://www.neowin.net/news/noticed-googles-new-favicon-yet-g...</a><p>[3] <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2417055,00.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2417055,00.asp</a>
So my cable company is Cox and the DVR menu is.. blue.. like everything is blue (light and dark). In fact it so hard to read from a distance, I am beginning to wonder if their design team seriously were thinking like this. I am sure there is a setting that I <i>may</i> be able to adjust, but seriously...