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To: Columbo who wrote (36)	10/26/1997 2:08:00 PM
From: Yogi	Respond to of 1600

Our hardest challenge is to educate the Dilbert bosses. You have hit the nail on the head. I work for a large insurance company and we continue to blindly follow Micro$uck down a path of ignorance. They made us get rid of Lotus and WordPerfect and replace it with Excel and Word. We will soon be upgrading to Windows NT. I don't think these people have a clue. They simply take the attitude that Bill knows best and follow the masses. At least we still have our Netscape browsers. MH #2

To: Columbo who wrote (36)	10/26/1997 2:42:00 PM
From: Kal	Respond to of 1600

I feel your pain MH #0. I'm not involved in any NT projects (and don't want to be). But I see the pain my colleagues at work suffer, who have NT involved in their projects. We have a document management project where NT 4 is a necessity. Administrating those machines is a total NIGHTMARE, performance is snailish. Not even our Dilbert bosses are happy with it. I have yet to see 1 user/boss who's happy with it. Poor souls. What do we do to educate them? MH #1

To: Columbo who wrote (36)	10/27/1997 2:55:00 AM
From: Nero	Respond to of 1600

<Would you like your hospitals run by people who have no clue of medicine?> Excuse me for the digression, but they already are. They're called HMOs. It's the bottom line, man. Just like we're force-fed inferior Microsoft products, Dilbert managers put together health benefits packages that couldn't treat a hangnail -- then tell us we're covered. When government finally tried to tackle the problem, the insurance companies saturated the Washington airwaves with actors claiming they liked their health plans just fine. Add a pinch of Hillary bashing and Congress ran from health care reform like it was the plague. I'm a MacIdiot who has been tilting at the Microsoft windmill for 11 years. Now Jobs seems intent at taking Apple back to the garage from wence it came. Its a damn shame. Too many marketing mistakes. Apple knew their product was so superior. They believed no one would buy PCs with Microsoft OS just to save a few bucks. Not. Oh well. My last hope is that Gates picks up the Macintosh pieces, doesn't mess with it too much, and re-releases it as Windows 2000. nero