Britain gets Windows 7 first

World leader thanks to postal strike.

British punters are apparently the first in the world to receive their copies of Windows 7.

It is rare that the UK gets anything first, other than swine flu and foot and mouth diseases, so people really are putting out the bunting.

It seems the reason for the early release is because of the quaint tendency of British workers to go out on strike.

While most people thought that Margaret Thatcher had solved this problem years ago by shooting strikers and banning trade unions, apparently the British postal workers have not got the memo.

With a postal strike looming the Vole apparently has decided to allow retailers to release its latest operating system early in the UK.

This is probably not a good idea really because this means the first reviewers will be Brits and we tend to think everything is a bit crap. If the Vole had released Windows 7 first in San Francisco it would doubtlessly be declared beautiful.

Unfortunately for the Vole the US postal workers in San Francisco are too relaxed to strike.

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11 Comments

davidian Oct 21, 2009 10:59 AM	Well Technet subscribers and Volume License customers worlwdie have been running Windows 7 RTM for a month or two (such as myself on both counts). This story is really only relevant if you're a retail monkey - in which case you're not first, you're last, no matter where you live!
thesorehead Oct 21, 2009 11:33 AM	Where did the nickname "the Vole" come from?????????
Mademan Oct 21, 2009 11:55 AM	Isn't San Francisco the home of America's organic, free range, lactose free, soy bean enriched apple flavored computer company?
TheFrunj Oct 21, 2009 12:02 PM	thesorehead, I am half tempted to refer to Microsoft in my future articles as Vole, just to irk you :P -JR
Jeruselem Oct 21, 2009 1:23 PM	If AusPost workers went to strike, we'd get W7 a month later ...
Mudg3 Oct 21, 2009 2:47 PM	They dont need to go on strike to get any shitter
rikk Oct 21, 2009 7:26 PM	Vole - A greasy mid-op transexual love monkey with shaven genitalia. There are many in east anglia. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=vole
p_francis_bennett Oct 21, 2009 9:19 PM	I'm going to wait a while until all the hypre is over and everyone and everything has calmed down, i may even get a copy next year when this RC has run it's course.
majestic975 Oct 22, 2009 8:38 AM	I'll wait 6 months until I decide to use it us my main OS, after my Vista experience in 2007, lets just say that it was a very negative experience and a waste of money. It took 2 service packs to make that OS useable. So its sensible to wait and see what Windows 7 is like now that its out in the wide world before I install it.
TheFrunj Oct 22, 2009 1:13 PM	majestic975, why wait six months? Download the RC or RTM and give it a go before you buy it, they're practically identical to the retail version. Oh, and I wholeheartedly support Windows 7 as a jump-straight-to-it-OS. Vista was a shambles, but I've had nothing but pleasure from W7.
Pugsley82 Nov 1, 2009 8:17 PM	isn't swine flu mexican?

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