Why We’re Addicted to Bill Gates
Each day, nearly one billion computers boot up with the familiar Windows or Vista icon. Even if we don’t have the Microsoft operating system, most of us write with Microsoft Word, do math with Microsoft Excel, and could not imagine presenting without Microsoft PowerPoint. No matter how much it might dismay us, we are all addicted to the software that Bill Gates foisted on the world 25 years ago.
Similar to most addicts, we no longer get a high from our addiction. But we can’t seem to break the Microsoft habit. How did Gates get such a stranglehold on our lives?
He did not invent the original operating system for the PC or any of the productivity applications that made the desktop machine a staple for businesses ...
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