Elf Sternberg

 Omaha and I went out for lunch today, and while we were getting our bagels I noticed that the man sitting at the table next to ours had a weird looking tablet, but it was the chicklet keyboard that gave it away.  "Look," I told Omaha, "A Microsoft Surface in the wild."

The guy overheard me and snorted.  "Yeah.  Kinda weird, huh?"

"How good is it?"

He shrugged.  "It's not great.  But I need it for Excel."

And that encapsulates much of Microsoft's marketing since Windows 3.1.

John C. Dvorak (yes, him), writes:

I use a utility called Prevx [link: www.prevx.com], a host-intrusion protection system, as well as one or two other antispyware packages to keep the stuff at bay. And it still sneaks in once in a while. Most recently, I forgot to turn off my CUTEftp client and left it running all night. In the morning some system had loaded some weird software called "active skin," and I had to use SpySubtract to remove 26 Registry entries. Exactly how anything manages to worm in through the open port and place items in the Registry is beyond me, but it happens all the time.

Emphasis mine.

Great Caesar's ghost, John, when are you gonna finally buy a Mac?