Windows 7
Windows 7
[Megan is standing behind Cueball sitting at a desk using his laptop.] Megan: What are you doing? Cueball: Trying the Windows 7 beta. Megan: Why is it showing a picture of Hitler? [The laptop's screen is shown with Adolf Hitler's face on it, drawn in regular xkcd style with no facial features other than his hairstyle and mustache.] Cueball: I don't know. I can't get it to do anything else. Megan: There's no UI? Cueball: No, just Hitler. [Return to the original scene, except Megan is now scratching her head in confusion.] Megan: Did you try Ctrl-Alt-Delete? Cueball: It just makes Hitler's eyes flash. Megan: Huh. [Scene remains basically the same, except Megan is no longer scratching her head and Cueball is no longer typing on the laptop.] Megan: Well, it's better than Vista. Cueball: True.

This Comic came out 2 weeks after the beta version of the at that time not yet released Windows 7 got leaked on the internet, and 2 days after a trojan-infected version got leaked as well.
Megan is observing Cueball use a laptop on which he has installed the Windows 7 beta. However, the alleged Windows 7 beta is showing nothing but a picture of Adolf Hitler and Cueball is unable to do anything. This could hint at the version containing malware. Cueball then presses Control-Alt-Delete (the well-known Windows Secure Attention Sequence which opens Task Manager or displays a list of options which includes 'Shut Down' and 'Restart') as suggested by Megan, but only manages to make the picture's eyes flash .
The fourth panel shows Megan commenting that this Windows 7 beta is better than Windows Vista , to which Cueball agrees. The joke is that Megan deems a mostly non-functional and vaguely sinister OS, which is likely malware, better than Windows Vista, which was generally perceived as one of the worst Windows OSes.
The title text is a disclaimer stating that Randall has not tried the beta at the time this comic was written, but what he has heard about it he regards as at least mildly positive. However, he also damns it by faint praise, referring to it as hardly Hitler-y at all, a statement that could raise warning flags, as one would not generally expect an operating system to be able to be described as Hitler-y to any degree at all. "Hitler-y" is implied to mean pertaining to or having qualities similar to Adolf Hitler, the late German Nazi Party leader and perhaps the most notorious mass-murderer in history.
[Megan is standing behind Cueball sitting at a desk using his laptop.] Megan: What are you doing? Cueball: Trying the Windows 7 beta. Megan: Why is it showing a picture of Hitler? [The laptop's screen is shown with Adolf Hitler's face on it, drawn in regular xkcd style with no facial features other than his hairstyle and mustache.] Cueball: I don't know. I can't get it to do anything else. Megan: There's no UI? Cueball: No, just Hitler. [Return to the original scene, except Megan is now scratching her head in confusion.] Megan: Did you try Ctrl-Alt-Delete? Cueball: It just makes Hitler's eyes flash. Megan: Huh. [Scene remains basically the same, except Megan is no longer scratching her head and Cueball is no longer typing on the laptop.] Megan: Well, it's better than Vista. Cueball: True.
