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...worse than its initial hardware problems was the sneering contempt of "power users," reared on IBM machines, who made it clear to anybody who asked that real men didn't use mice. Ironically, Microsoft's Bill Gates, whose company owned the operating system at the heart of the IBM-PC, was plotting all the while to shift the entire market to the Mac way of doing things. Today, two-thirds of the computers that use Apple's desktop metaphor are made by the company's competitors...
There is more to a computer than its metaphor, of course. Charles Piller, author of The Fail-Safe Society, argues that it was the PC itself, not the so- called user interface, that drove the computer revolution. "The automobile altered society in fundamental ways," says Piller. "The automatic transmission did not." But it is not always clear where metaphor ends and reality begins. Linguists George Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggest in Metaphors We Live By that when people accept a metaphor like "argument is war," with such attendant expressions as "attack a position" and "indefensible," it actually changes how they...
...have a precocious little sister who aspires to become a chess grandmaster? If so, Software Toolworks' "Chessmaster 4000" for the PC or "Chessmaster 3000" for the Mac may brighten up her face with a big smile--and not because she can beat the chess-playing software all the time...
...platform, Symantec's "Anti-Virus for the Mac" (commonly known as SAM) provides powerful defense against viruses. For the PC, the "Norton Anti-Virus," also from Symantec, has won my respect by rescuing my computer from a viral infection a year...
...popular finance program, from Intuit, won the 1993 PC Magazine Editor's Choice award and has been trusted by many who rely on it to straighten their finances...