The text displayed on the celebratory Windows Vista launch kit

[Ian W]

Well I've known of this image for quite some time and have probably hurt my eyes trying to read the text displayed on the kit. The image is of Microsoft's Jim Allchin holding the Windows Vista kit distributed to manufacturers to celebrate the release of the operating system. I am thankful to Paul Thurrott for sharing this image with us.


Perhaps others have wondered what this text says? A cursory Internet search led me to discover that the author of the text is English poet Robert Browning. The text is a portion of a poem and states:
"I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility... I trust in my own soul, that can perceive the outward and the inward..."

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

Cool?

[Ian W]

Cool?

Very.

[firey]

And then they released windows 7 and the world was awesome once again....

[FloatingFatMan]

And then they released windows 7 and the world was awesome once again....

 

Ah, but without Vista, 7 would not have been as awesome.

[Arachno 1D]

Well I've known of this image for quite some time and have probably hurt my eyes trying to read the text displayed on the kit.

 

It clearly states

" WARNING Install at your peril no responsibility accepted for corrupt installations!"

[firey]

Ah, but without Vista, 7 would not have been as awesome.

This is true.. but I still wish they had gone the longhorn route... it was a very purdy looking OS.

[netty2014]

Oh my the release of any operating system is a step forward in the development of the interactive world we now live in is the micro chip age it is still young from big blue to the ZX 81 to machines that design machines and make desktop computers look like old packing crates this is our world we see and the beauty of the moment is Now  ! 

[Ian W]

This is true.. but I still wish they had gone the longhorn route... it was a very purdy looking OS.

I don't get that. Windows Vista is very much like "Longhorn" in many major ways.