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...course, these problems are merely symptomatic of the larger problem of these technothriller novels: self-absorption on behalf of the author. We can imagine the writer, typing away at his word processor (another spur to novel-writing these days: anyone with WordPerfect and memories of comic book adventures can churn out a 400-pager in a few days and modem it away) loath to omit any bit of abstruse technological research accrued over many sleepless nights of study. Perhaps the MA's are the breaks he allows himself. Perhaps Death By Fire is another example of how movies have infiltrated...
...many software developers are also uneasy about Microsoft's next big moment, for as Gates' influence steadily grows, their own role inevitably shrinks. They are reduced to writing second-string software, while Microsoft reserves the big programs for itself. Microsoft, as former WordPerfect executive Pete Peterson once put it, "is the fox that takes you across the river and then eats...
Using a strategy Arthur calls "target, leverage, link and lock," Microsoft proceeded to convert dos users to Windows users, Windows users to Word users and so on down the product line. Microsoft's customers, of course, were free to switch to WordPerfect for Windows or Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows or any other competing products. But by the time those programs were ready, Microsoft already owned the markets. "You could argue," says Arthur, "that Microsoft is the product of clever strategy, mediocre technology and a hell of a lot of increasing returns...
There is also a small but increasing quantity of software written specifically for OS/2. Lotus has an OS/2 version of their Smart-Suite, which includes the Ami Pro word processor and Lotus 1-2-3. Users of WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows can get an OS/2 integration package. And OS/2 itself includes a set of applications in its Bonus Pack, including simple word processing, spreadsheet and PIM (Personal Information Manager) programs...
From November of 1993 until MIT shut down the system in January of 1994, these users accessed the bulletin board to make free copies of commercial software programs, such as Microsoft Excel 5.0, WordPerfect 6.0 and Sim City...