is this a joke? (MS related)

[nostatic]

http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=214600016&subSection=News

Windows 7 Includes Three New Games

Internet-based versions of popular parlor games are built in to Microsoft's new OS.
By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
February 25, 2009 01:09 PM

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)'s Windows 7 operating system offers three new timewasters for bored cube dwellers, bumped airline passengers, or people who just like games.

Included in the OS, which is expected to be available in final form later this year or early next, are new Internet-based versions of backgammon, checkers, and the card game spades.

"The new versions of these games have been completely redesigned and improved over their old-school predecessors," wrote Brandon LeBlanc, Microsoft's in-house Windows blogger, in a recent post. "Tired of Minesweeper? Definitely give these games a try and join the thousands of other players online who are playing too."

[Seric]

Nope, looking at a Win7 test machine and there they are. Weee.

[VaSteve]

it will make it easier to figure out who to lay off.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Only Microsoft could make a version of checkers that requires more computing power than all of NASA combined had 30 years ago in order to run.

I found this amusing:



Damn thing isn't even out yet and already you gotta' sit through a bunch of annoying "patches" to plug security holes. haha! Classic.

Vista Part Deux, I'm guessing. MicroThud.