From The Dark Side--Life There Is Bleak

according to Stewart Alsop in a Fortune.Com article who states:

"Microsoft's operating system is what has led to our loss of control over computing. The system is so complicated and so burdened with the legacy of its past that it has become unusable by mere mortals, or even by geeks like me."

[Nor me, as I found out when I recently bought some new PC hardware (56K internal modem, sound card and ethernet card) for our lone 200 MHz PC and tried to install it. After hours of labor over many days, including several reinstalls of Windows 95, it's still just a pile of unoperatable IRQ-conflicted junk.--Bill]. [Dana Baggett]