26 Nov
1998
26 Nov
'98
7:41 a.m.
I guess I missed that commercial, but I did see the one where they
showed a screen with a guy with his foot victoriously atop a bunch of
software boxes, and the words, " A computer on every desk and on every
home running Microsoft software". Also, they showed Steve Ballmer
explaining that with all the attention Win95 got, their browser at the
time didn't receive all that much attention. He ignored the fact that
they didn't even make the browser, as well as the fact that it opened
nothing but an empty window when Win95 was released.
The thing I was most amazed by was the Microsoft
commercial, where they
actually acknowledged and saluted the contributions to computing of
non-Microsoft people.
They showed a series of pictures of people with captions explaining who
they are and what they did, including Grace Hopper (inventor of COBOL),
Dan Bricklin (inventor of the spreadsheet program).. I wish I had more
examples but right about then was when I started to doze off so my short
term memory didn't retain that. Suffice it to say I was pretty amazed it
turned out to be a Microsoft commercial.
Otherwise, the program (what I caught of it) was pretty good I thought.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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