On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Day Brown wrote: > Windows was not an improvement in functionality.
That could be argued either way, depending on the user's preferencees. What it was, was a different way of performing the same function - run a computer. > Before, > anyone who worked at a keyboard was a clerk/typist. a > lowly office grunt. Managers would not dream of putting > their fingers on a keyboard. The mouse solved that. It > allowed them to have a little device on their own desk > whose main function was to show that _this_ computer was > not a tool for an office grunt. That is an interesting psychological observation - I wonder if Bill Gates was consciously aware of this, or just lucked out. In retrospect, it is an obvious (if used subtly) moneymaking selling-point. > It allowed them to access information that they themselves > had not actually entered with the keyboard, which gave a > sense of power, without the plebian necessity of actually > having to learn to type. Anything that gives someone in power (and seeking more power) a rush of power, could be quite addictivie... Now, if we could "bottle" this, we'd be RICH. Boyd Ramsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
