We knew it was coming, mostly because we were just starting to finally squash all the bugs in Windows Vista. Or because we had already rolled back to XP in frustration. Or because Uncle Bill needs more Jacksons. (How’s that for an old-school reference? Pretty groovy, huh?)

In any event, yesterday we learned the date that Microsoft is threatening to release its latest OS (or more appropriately, POS): October 22.

I know the Aztec calendar says we have until 2012, but coming on the heels of another Michael Bay-directed Transformers movie, we might really be facing Armageddon.

Can’t we just deal with this like any other racket? Can’t Microsoft just give us its demands and let us pay our ransom and be done with it? Something like “Give us 1 billion dollars or we’ll release this virus-filled crap onto the world!”

That would be so much easier.

-J