J is for Jackboot

Do you know what jackboots are?

High boots usually worn by villains in movies. Like the Nazis of World War II. Usually black leather, but sometimes brown. In a lot of the old movies, the villains wear black boots while the heroes wear brown boots. Old movies made it easy to tell who was the good guy. I appreciate that. Wish bad guys had a dress code now.

I use jackboots as a shorthand for an overbearing person. A bully. It's my slang. You can use it, too, although it may be doing a disservice to a perfectly good piece of foot gear that has the misfortune to be favored by people wanting to conquer the world. Or at the very least, impose their will on the rest of the world.

Which leads us -- or at least me -- to Windows 8, which has an interface guaranteed to make me leave Windows once and for all. It's their mobile phone interface -- big color square boxes that look like a child learning his shapes -- an interface that has not taken the world by storm, but they're going to cram it down our throats no matter what.

I hope it fails in a major way. I hope it makes Windows Me and Vista look like huge successes. Maybe then Microsoft will take off those jackboots and try to satisfy the customer.

But don't hold your breath.

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