Re: Windows victims: go ahead and pretend you don't want or need the greatest PC software available

rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

A long time ago I did an inventory control system. I learned that the
people doing data entry hardly looked at the screen. I think I could have
put up a dialog saying 'Your pantyhose are on fire!' and the wouldn't
notice. What they did notice was anything that broke the pattern as they
tabbed between boxes and entered the data.

 
Heh. On the classified-ad typesetting project I worked on, one of the
developers shortened a particular key-sequence by one character.
 
Hoo boy! The complaints were vociferous; the change was undone.