North Korean Missile Test Delayed By Windows 8 (newyorker.com)

This is not good news for DoD [1].

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/04/u-s-department-of-defense-s...

Face-saving lie?

I can't tell if this is actual news or an Onion-like parody.

Is this a joke?

If you are wondering if this is real news or not, just look at previous posts:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/

This piece is satire, for anyone who was confused.

I don't think I've ever laughed at a Borowitz Report headline. In all fairness to him, the New Yorker (otherwise my favorite magazine) is kind of a stupid place for things like this. Part of what makes The Onion so funny is how ruthless they are at playing as a straight news source. The New Yorker doesn't have any pretense as a straight news source, so there's just no surprise. So you know it's a joke before you get to the punchline. I don't know, or maybe he's just not funny.