096. Ultraseven (Launching Windows 7)

“A luxurious super huge burger with 7 113g beef patties in an American size bun with a diameter of 13cm!” —advertisement for the Windows 7 Whopper (translated from Japanese)

In the era of “boxed” software release to manufacturing was a super special moment. The software is done, and the bits permanently pressed onto a DVD disc. That disc, the golden master, is then shipped off physically to duplicators around the world and then combined with another artifact of the era, a box or in the case of Windows 7 a plastic anti-theft…