Alas, Poor Microsoft … You Used to Be So
Interesting

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“Even if Longhorn is a big improvement over Windows, it
still won’t ignite a revolution. Why? Because–and believe me, I
never thought I’d say this in a million years–Microsoft’s software
is good enough. We all bitch and moan about one shortcoming or
another, as I’ve often done in these pages over the years. But
there’s not a whole lot Microsoft can do to make its programs so
much better that they justify the suffering we have to endure any
time we upgrade to something new. Longhorn might get geeks all
sweaty with desire, but to the rest of us, it’s still just an
operating system.”