Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some people have dismissed Windows 98--The new operating system from Microsoft that goes on sale next week--as little more than a bug fix. Don't believe it: if Windows 98 is a mere bug fix, then so was adding a fourth wheel to the automobile. This is an operating system that's finally stable. My computer used to crash more than a three-wheeled car. Since installing Windows 98 two weeks ago, it's run smoothly, perkily and reliably. Best of all, it has yet to freeze, or even shiver...
Although Windows 98 is hardly revolutionary, I recommend it to any PC user. My biggest beef is that Microsoft isn't giving Windows 98 away. Only a monopoly vendor of operating systems could sell a product, Windows 95, that contains a passel of annoying glitches, then charge $89 to fix it under the guise of an "upgrade." There is, I'm told, a more charitable way to look at this: "If you've been using Windows 95 since the beginning, you can consider Windows 98 the reward for your patience," says the sunny Kip Crosby, who co-wrote The Windows...
Without a doubt, Baskin Robbins is an appealing option for a hungry summer school student studying at Lamont and seeking a quick ice cream fix...
...probably the rest of us--take certain advantages of our capitalistic society for granted. Consumerism makes our life much easier; the glitches of daily life have been paved over. When things go wrong, someone in uniform and badge is usually there, with a smile and a degree, to fix...
...Eleven. It's a plausible theory. The conventional and nuclear power plants that produce our electricity are all controlled to some degree--usually a large degree--by computers, and some of the suspect programs are etched directly onto silicon chips, making them even harder to find and fix. Some utilities have only recently begun the process of ferreting out potentially weak links in their delivery systems. Worse, since most utilities are linked to one another in gridlike fashion, there could be a domino effect, turning local failures into regional blackouts...