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Windows 7 Released Early In UK
CNETNate writes "UK customers have been reporting that they received their copies of Windows 7 in the mail today. Currently the British postal service is threatening industrial action over pay, and planned walkouts may result in Windows 7 not being delivered on its release date. It is understood that Microsoft has agreed to let some retailers send out copies early to avoid disappointment, and to make the UK the first country in the world to have Windows 7 in customers' hands."
"Country" is very loosely defined, to the point that a statement like "The UK isn't a country" is completely baseless and meaningless.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country
Depending on your definition:
The UK is a country. (The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Great Britain is a country. (comprising the countries of England, Scotland and Wales)
England is a country.
In fact, a lot of English people (i.e. actually from England) will use all three to mean exactly the same thing (usually the UK).
There is no set definition, and nobody refers to the UK as a sovereign state unless it's in some formal document somewhere... it's a country.
Princess Diana has died again?
What does Free the United Kingdom from Drugs have to do with this?
No, no, no, no... That's not Article 3...
Article 3 is 'No crewmember with false teeth should attempt oral sex in zero-gravity'
I haven't come across anyone from England who'd refer to the whole thing as 'England'.