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...from Yale in 1994, Steen quickly implemented a residential computing support system, House computer labs and general e-mail kiosks. "Unlike Yale's College system, Harvard equalizes things among Houses," Steen says. "Every House has a 10-base T network, seven computers in their labs...and up to three user assistants...
Under a switch system, the network directs data so that it goes only to its intended user...
...process is not that user-friendly," he wrote...
...would like to believe a computer software company can thrive by providing the "innovative, user-friendly technologies" that Bill Gates claims are responsible for the popularity of Windows [TECHNOLOGY, May 15]. Unfortunately Microsoft products prove that this is not the case. People who feel that Windows or the Office suite qualifies for this kind of acclaim have not had the opportunity to use the superior alternatives that have been all but squeezed out by the "critical mass" of the Windows product. The reality, for all of Bill's bleating, is that it is difficult for people to choose...
...hadn't been able to make Office. He's absolutely right. Without bundling Windows with an applications suite, Microsoft would never have been able to sell such an unstable and unintuitive system. The only Microsoft innovations that I am aware of are "bloatware." When I want a user-friendly interface, I use a Mac; when I want a stable, flexible system with enormous power, I use Linux; and when I want to be reminded of just how good these other two systems are, I boot up my Windows machine. TIMO HANNAY Tokyo...