No problem installing Windows 2025 (extracted from short stories by Scott Hawkins): In the future we will all rush out to buy Windows 2025. We will have no choice in the matter, for Windows 2025 will be the first operating system to govern not only world of computers, but the whole of human society. If we wish to interface with the world, to converse with our neighbors, to advance in our careers, to raise up our children, to appreciate the wonders of nature, art, music and literature, to get out of life everything it has to offer, we must have Windows 2025 installed. Windows 2025 will ship packaged in a 500cc hypodermic syringe. The only documentation will be a simple one page installation guide. TO INSTALL WINDOWS 2025.... 1) Immediately before bedtime, inject Windows into any major artery. 2) Pleasant dreams! 3) Wake up to the world of Windows 2025!!! As we drift off to sleep our inner organs will begin to itch as the hoards of nanotech molecular robots of the Microsoft Installer Program swarm through our system, rewiring neurons, rewriting genetic code, rerouting established intellectual and emotional data flows to assure maximum compatibility with the new Operating System. In our dreams we will ascend effortlessly to a mountain summit from which vantage we will gaze down upon the sprawling, clogged, polluted city of our former selves as it ismercifully and unceremoniously bulldozed flat. We will then see a new city miraculously appear around us-- the City of Windows, the City on a Hill, aglow with the luminous library of beauty to be found in Microsoft Art Gallery. We will feel our bodies begin to change, our features alter, see the pigment of our skin modulate to blend in with the new graphical interface. From our lips will spill a torrent of words as our old, chaotic language is is purged, to be replaced by the concise vocabulary of Microsoft Dictionary. Our minds, our spirits, will be set ablaze, so overwhelmed by the downloading of Encarta's ordered universe of data that, come the dawn, we'll hardly know whether we have awakened or are still dreaming, so transcendent and dreamlike will seem the world of Windows 2025. Not all of us will be so fortunate, however. A significant proportion of consumers (38% of all users, according to one estimate) will, as they drift off to sleep with Microsoft fresh in their veins, be confronted by the "hardware incompatibility" screen nowhere mentioned in the advertising. "There exists a serious compatibility problem with current hardware," it will say. "Dismantle obsolete hardware?" The user will click the "cancel" button and get no response, then click it again and, frantically, several times more. Finally the "ok" button will hilite of its own accord. "Dismantling current hardware may prove to be quite painful," the System will respond. "Are you sure you wish to continue?" This time there will be no "cancel" button. The user will pause for a moment, then click "yes." The night will be filled with the howlings of Microsoft customers suffering the tortures of Windows 2025.