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To: Charles W. Breaux, Jr. who wrote (9262)	3/10/1998 11:51:00 PM
From: BillHoo	Respond to of 213173

<<Bill, talk about a great scenario for an Apple commercial! It harks back to the great 1984 one.>> Great imagery, but it would never sell to the Apple review board. Notice, it assumes that Apple lost the war and it's users are underground rebels. The 1984 spot worked because no one in the world had yet seen anything like the Mac. The war had just begun and there was hope. Now there is only misery and useless windows nested within windows, within windows and framed by useless taks bars taking up valuable monitor space. ON THAT NOTE I just got a new job as the Windows95 Quality Assurance Rep at a large pharmaceutical company. All Windows environ. They had to hire me because the users were beating on the tech support doors with pitchforks! I've never seen a more unhappy group of users (Win 3.11 to Win95 over night). System crashes abound, Office 97 causing GPFs (General Protection Faults - the PC equivalent of Type 11 errors - What are they?) Some people had not read their e-mail in over a week because MS Exchange wouldn't run. Something about needing a patch to repair compatibility problems between Windows 95-A and Windows 95-B. They wanted a "people friendly" person to guide the new Win95 users. Most Mac support people are as user-friendly as the OS. After I skillfully repair their problems and give them simple training, I subliminally mutter "Shoulda got a Mac". It doesn't hurt that I mention to the users that I took the job with a sizable raise. Cashing in on the fact that the employees I'm supporting were told that they would not get raises or bonuses this year. Windows upgrades and support are robbing corporations of employee benefits! -Bill_H