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Burger King cooks up Windows 7 Whopper

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Jelliphiish

serving suggestion 

Coat

looks pretty but the consequences will kill you.

mines the one with the Pepto in thepocket.

mfraz

WIndows 7 whopper 

WTF?

Should have a health warning on it as it would probably contain a lot of bugs, worms, viruses etc.

Hardcastle

Go Meat! 

Paris Hilton

H311 yeah, hook a brutha up, playa! Why limit this all-beef flame-broiled pleasure to Japan when there are hungry dudes in Kansas just willing to smash one of these down? On the other hand, how about the Ubuntu 9.10 Whomper with 10 beef and 9 cheese built in... Now that would be pretty damn tasty.

Paris, because we know full well her fondness for a big ol' hit of beef...

BigSpoon0

meat patties 

'meat patties' - Am I the only person who finds that term a little... disturbing?

Oliver Jones

Only the Japanese. :) 

Happy

In my experience with the Japanese, this does not surprise me too much (let's face it, this is fairly pedestrian when compared to Japanese vending machines that sell underwear previously worn by nubile young schoolgirls). I kid you not...

But it still puts a grin on my face whenever I see a marketing prank like this coming from the Land of the Rising Sun. :)

Anonymous Coward

Hmm.. 

DO WANT

Jamie Kitson

Literally 

My colleague said he reckoned he'd BSOD if he ate one of those.

I love the way the site loads so slowly that you can't tell when the tower might end.

Anon the mouse

Bring it here 

They should bring that to the UK, might get more than 1 person in the place then.

Geoff Campbell

See, that's why I love Microsoft.... 

....you'd never get Apple thinking like that :-)

William Claude Dukenfield

Mmm...seven burgers. 

I can feel my arteries screaming for animal fat now. How much to get to Japan?

Frostbite

Which one? 

Alert

@Jelliphiish - (The first posting from Jelliphiish)

Are you talking about the Burger or the Operating System?

Mathew White

Standard Microsoft... 

Thats what i call bloatware.

Lionel Baden

OMG !!! 

I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT

This satisfies the Canivore in me !!!!!!

Im printing this off and as soon as my pay comes in im marching to the nearest BK and see'ing if they are going to be a good sport !!!

Dave Murray

Give me the meat! 

Thumb Up

Why only Japan? This monster would sell a bomb in Glasgow, more if they deep fried it!

@Jelliphiish: Yeah so does most things but at least I can enjoy one of these, unlike most so called healty food.

Anonymous Coward

Yes please 

Paris Hilton

I want one. What more can I say? I certainly want one more than I want Windows 7.

Paris, 'cos she likes manly meat.

Anonymous Coward

I'm lovin' it 

No, seriously, I want one.

Now.

Adam Salisbury

"That's a f*cking good burger" 

Go

I want one, unimaginable cardiovascular consequences be damned! Mind you, if BK's tagline is 'Have it your way' then you should be able to print the poster off, take it to your local BK and demand they make you one!!

Might not work here in Blighty but surely out in Kansas you could have them make you one on pain of lawsuit!

Anonymous Coward

How apt 

FAIL

Looks tasty to begin with but will soon have you vomiting as it's still the same shit as before, only more of it.

Joseph Haig

Bleah 

Grenade

That looks bloated.

Grenade icon for the 'Mr Creosote' effect.

Frumious Bandersnatch

more on the Japanese 

mentions "13cm of American-sized buns". Was wondering if it was a subtle dig at American largeness, but 13cm "buns" would be abnormally small (unless you work for Ralph Lauren, I suppose). So I guess it's not a paradoy, though why they think largeness (or Win7, for that matter) is a selling point, I've no idea.

re: meat patties, the ad actually says "beef patties"... so not quite as disgusting-sounding. Shame that the picture does that job all by itself.

PS this is far from the only strange re-imagining of western food out there. Pizza with mashed potatoes comes to mind as one of the odder dishes I've come across...

Filippo

Irony 

Coat

I take it that FAT is still widespread, yes?

shane fitzgerald

All that meat will block your arteries.... 

.....and therefore result in the blue scream of death.

Jason Togneri

@ meat patties 

Alert

Well, technically they're made of beef, so I suppose you could call them "cow patties"...

Dave 32

Before lunch 

WTF?

Why, oh why, did I have to see this right before lunch?

Dave

P.S. Just think what we have to look forward to when Windows 23 ships!

P.P.S. Mine's the one with the multiple, oversized, insulated pockets.

Richard 102

Wow 

Lucky they didn't think of this for Windows 2000.

Look, I get a jones for a Bk cheeseburger now and then, but dayumm! Al Sharpton couldn't finish that thing.

pisquee

Win2K 

Where was the Windows 2000 BK Whopper?!

Pitpat

Lets hope the similarities end with the number 7! 

FAIL

The Windows 7 burger looks quite difficult to install. I am quessing it will cause sluggish system opperation for the first 12 hours and cause long delays to day to day opperations while the user tries to get rid of it! I just hope Windows 7 Software doesn't exibit the same problems!

KB 1

How about an Apple instead? 

Coat

Anyone else think McDonald's missed a trick by not bringing out a limited edition Snow Leopard burger at the same time?

Leopard might be tasty, you never know.

Player_16

If this was in the States... 

Pint

...the cues would be longer waitin' for this thing than W7.

Wash it down... ahhh,...cool and refreshing...!

Jad

Thats a lot of bloat 

Joke

see title :)

Dadz

Arm and a leg 

Joke

I knew that Windows 7 would cost an arm and a leg. It appears to be costing some cows their arms and legs.

Thecowking

Where's the bee... 

Thumb Up

Oh wait, I see it.

That is one hell of a burger.

Peter 39

more of what 

Thumb Down

That fact that there's more of it doesn't mean it's any better than before.

Would 7x Vista be any better than a single? No, I didn't think so.

Win 7 is just a Vista Service Pack. Even MS has admitted as much, although not for attribution.

Anonymous Coward

on sale in the country until 28 October. 

Happy

After which time everyone who ate it will be dead and gone from either a heart attack or blocked intestine.

@Jason Togneri - shame on you making me mess up my monitor.

Anon the mouse

@kb1 

Now I'd like to try the snow leopard burger too.

B3vil

Waiting for 2009 server.. 

I'll never go hungry again!

slooth

Bloatware 

Pint

Windows 7 = bloatware. Just as this burger shows.

Matt 89

Just like the BK menu... 

Joke

... it looks fantastic in the photo advert ...

... but the real thing will fail to meat up to expectations...

BOOM BOOM

Doug Glass

As if Stevie boy ... 

FAIL

... hasn't been serving up his own whoppers for years.

Mike Moyle

Seven patties... 

Coat

... So, is that one burger for every install disk, then...?

Daemon ZOGG

The Proof Is In The Picture... 

Pint

Now we have a graphical comparison of just how much BLOAT is in M$ Windowz software..

I'm staying with Linux and FreeBSD Unix.

;)

Kurt 5

Needs a bit more 

Heart

Maybe modify it a bit -- some cheese and bacon would be good.

http://www.aboutcolonblank.com/2008/04/02/a-whopper-with-cheese-and-bacon-and-bacon-and-bacon-and-bacon-and-bacon-and-bacon-and-bacon-and-etc/

The heart because this would definitely be Heart Healthy.

Nathen Fredrick

Omnomnomnom 

Grenade

I need that burger in my life.

Mines the grenade, as that is what my heart would become after eating that.

Anonymous Coward

Nah 

too much green shit still

Jonski

Methinks 

Go

it needs more cheese.

Marty McFly

Ugh... 

Alert

That product gives me indigestion just looking at it.

The BK burger gives me indigestion too.

mrweekender

Hmmm... 

Flame

That burger is a just massive, greasy, bland, quick fix, that has virtually no nutritional value and would cause more problems long term than it will solve short term.

Sounds familiar.......

jake

I love meat. 

But that is entirely too much. Remember, folks, quality always trumps quantity.

That's why I run Slackware ... and grill my own burger, when I want one.

Olly_8

Had it 

Jobs Horns

Having worked for BK many years ago - I think I've had this for my end of night break - I may have cut out the salad as being dangerously healthy though...

For the carnivores out there, it tasted as good as it looks!

Puck

"It looks like you're trying to eat an unfeasibly large hamburger..." 

Coat

"...would you like some help with that?"

Mine's the shellsuit with ketchup stains on it

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