Is this a reference to Godwin's Law? Saibot84 ( talk) 21:59, 13 April 2013 (UTC)Īn ironic one, possibly. Cueball: True.Īdd a comment! ⋅ add a topic (use sparingly)! ⋅ refresh comments! Discussion
Megan: Did you try Ctrl-Alt-Delete? Cueball: It just makes Hitler's eyes flash. Megan: There's no UI? Cueball: No, just Hitler. Megan: Why is it showing a picture of Hitler? Cueball: I don't know. Transcript Megan: What are you doing? Cueball: Trying the Windows 7 beta. "Hitler-y" is implied to mean pertaining to or having qualities similar to Adolf Hitler, the late German Nazi Party leader and perhaps the most notorious mass-murderer in history. However, he also damns it by faint praise, referring to it as hardly Hitler-y at all, a statement that could raise warning flags, as one would not generally expect an operating system to be able to be described as Hitler-y to any degree at all. The title text is a disclaimer stating that Randall has not tried the beta at the time this comic was written, but what he has heard about it he regards as at least mildly positive. The joke is that Megan deems a mostly non-functional and vaguely sinister OS, which is likely malware, better than Windows Vista, which was generally perceived as one of the worst Windows OSes. The fourth panel shows Megan commenting that this Windows 7 beta is better than Windows Vista, to which Cueball agrees. Cueball then presses Control-Alt-Delete (the well-known Windows Secure Attention Sequence which opens Task Manager or displays a list of options which includes 'Shut Down' and 'Restart') as suggested by Megan, but only manages to make the picture's eyes flash. This could hint at the version containing malware. However, the alleged Windows 7 beta is showing nothing but a picture of Adolf Hitler and Cueball is unable to do anything. Megan is observing Cueball use a laptop on which he has installed the Windows 7 beta. This Comic came out 2 weeks after the beta version of the at that time not yet released Windows 7 got leaked on the internet, and 2 days after a trojan-infected version got leaked as well. I hear it's quite pleasant and hardly Hitler-y at all. Title text: Disclaimer: I have not actually tried the beta yet.
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