Review of Windows 20 and Macintosh OS XX

After many years of convergence, Windows and Macintosh OS are so similar that they can both be reviewed at once. This review is of both Windows 20 and Macintosh OS XX. They even have the same version number, go figure.

As it turned out, it was quite simple to review both. After many years of striving toward the graphical ideal of having fewer and fewer screen elements, they now both have no screen elements at all. Both operating systems boot to a completely blank screen.

Both Microsoft and Apple say that the screen color can be changed, but don't provide any way of doing it. In fact, with both, you can't do anything at all, except stare lovingly at the pure blank screen and squeal with joy.

Since both are great for that -- staring at the screen and doing nothing but enjoying the pure graphical blankness -- both get 5 stars for this review. Congratulations, Microsoft and Apple!

As you've no doubt heard and read, the fanbois of both camps are ecstatic. Both insist that their own favored brand's screen blankness is better than the other brand's, which they each dismiss as derivative and inferior, attracting only morons for users. Perhaps they are each half right.

To take full advantage of these new versions of Windows and Mac OS, PC manufactures and Apple have all brought out new computers. They have no keyboards, no ports, no potential for user input of any kind, so as not to distract the user from enjoying the great new blank screens.

As laptop product manager Terry SmarterThanThou at Dellibanysus explained, "These new laptops may look exactly the same as the last generation, but they are a huge improvement. Users complained that they had a hard time finding the locations of the keys on the completely blank deck. They'd start typing and find they were on the wrong keys, and make a lot of typos which would take time to for them to correct. We listened to our customers and addressed their concerns by removing the ability to type anything at all. Now you can type wherever you want on the deck, and just imagine that you're typing correctly."

So, what's next for Windows and Mac OS? We're not sure, but we're pretty sure there is no basis to the persistent rumors of them bringing back the very first versions of both operating systems, to satisfy users who want to do productive work. Of course there is no such user. As everyone can see in the ads, users only care about bling. And blank screens are the blingiest bling of all, as they set the user's imagination free.