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To: QwikSand who wrote (39244)12/14/2000 8:26:47 PM
From: QwikSand   of 64865
 
I kind of like this little snippet from Mossberg's weekly Personal Technology column in the WSJ. Nice to see a journalist who isn't in somebody's pocket.

--QS

... so each year, I've done an annual review of personal technology, not to assess power or profits, but to try to figure out if home computers got easier or harder for mainstream people to use. This year, I'm happy to say, important strides were made toward greater ease of use.

The PC itself didn't get better. If anything it actually became more aggravating. The huge flaws in Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system became increasingly apparent with age, and the company responded with a cosmetic makeover called Windows Me that not only didn't solve the old problems, but introduced some new ones. I remain convinced that a corporation as rich as Microsoft, one so ready to proclaim its own brilliance, should be deeply embarrassed by this state of affairs...
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