They were popularly known as the Kings of California

1. Intended as ironic, this remark empurpled the anti-anti-Communists who predominated on the intellectual left. —Christopher Hitchens. Susan Sontag: Remembering an intellectual heroine. http://www.slate.com/id/2111506

And the rhapsodization by European intellectuals went on and on.

Overall then, with Vista, Megabollox were 'flogging a dead donkey' by introducing this cosmetic, resource-flogging successor to Windows XP falsely as an advance.