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To: Yogi - Paul who wrote (1023)10/13/1998 3:51:00 PM
From: Yogi - Paul  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 2025
 
Again, the promise of technology is greater than the capability of the people using and installing the tools.
nytimes.com
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<<Despite the favorable bias of having state-of-the-art equipment installed by specialists and the availability of constant technical support, "nobody has made any positive comment on the hardware and software, or said that it was easier, faster or more powerful than he or she expected," Graham commented in an interview.

"My own PC and Microsoft's were both badly messed up by incompetent engineers," said Tom Linch, a journalist with The Financial Times and a street resident. "I was without any computer at all for weeks and had to switch all my e-mail use to the office.">>

Microsoft has got to come up with a truly user-friendly OS. The market is super saturated at 40% until this happens.

Yogi