“What a great science fiction movie this would be.”
“The film would open in prehistoric times (the 1970s), showing a
primitive people barely scraping by with Stone Age tools like pens,
typewriters and filing cabinets. Suddenly, a strange, monolithic
box appears: the Altair personal computer.”
“Cut to the future. It’s the year 2000, and we’re all hurtling
through space, our lives completely dependent on one intelligent,
highly sophisticated software program: Windows 2000
Professional.”
“The Win2000 “experience” is supposed to be simple as 1-2-3 (and
I don’t mean Lotus). But behind that mask of simplicity lies a
bloated, legacy-burdened OS of more than 30 million lines of
spaghetti code. Whether Win2000 is actually as smooth and easy as
its interface suggests is an open question. Plenty of IT execs seem
skeptical; they assume it’ll take a couple of bug-fixing updates
for the product to even approach the reliability of Linux or the
compatibility of Win98.”