Windows 7 and Halloween

I make no qualms about my affinity of Apple, makers of both software and hardware, who thereby can't point the finger at each other.

But is it any wonder Microsoft is releasing Windows 7, the prerequisite to Windows 8, on Halloween? Is Windows 7 cursed from the start?

Here's what esarcasm.com is saying about some of Microsoft's wackier marketing gimmicks:

Microsoft seems willing to do anything — and we mean anything — to get you to buy Windows 7. Microsoft is hoping 7 is its lucky number. Desperate to make up for earlier mistakes with Vista — namely the decision to release the thing in the first place — Microsoft is pulling out all the stops in a Windows 7 marketing blitzkrieg featuring dorky launch parties...