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Rocky Mountain News: Has Microsoft Finally Seen Error Message of Its Ways?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 4, 2005

“I don’t use Windows on my laptop, having been warned off both
by my son Peter (who’s a Unix wizard) and by the irritating
frequency of ‘this program not responding’ messages on the Windows
machine I use at work.

“But is it possible that the evil Microsoft tyranny might mend
its ways? (If you’re around Unix/Linux people a lot, they all talk
like that and it tends to be catching, especially if you’ve just
had to reboot your Windows computer for the third time that
morning, as was happening around here for several days
recently…)”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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