Regarding the May 22 letter from Jesse Zellner (“Microsoft’s value”):
No one I know rates Microsoft so highly. We use Windows basically because for IBM and compatible machines, it’s practically the only game in town.
I am sorry that Mr. Zellner had problems with Netscape’s browser. I have been using it for only a month, but I find it to be a much better product than Microsoft’s Explorer. I have also had many working days and years of joy using WordPerfect. I have also used Microsoft Word, and I find it to be a more limited word-processing program, unable to do all that I and my job require of it.
And I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the coverage of Bill Gates, in his new product demo, being struck by the “blue screen of death” from his new Windows 98 product, which I see on a weekly basis and which one of my co-workers sees daily on Windows 95.
The only Microsoft product I will run on my computer is Windows 95, because my options of other operating systems are extremely limited. I also use certain programs because they’re good. And until Bill Gates and Co. learn to debug their programs before they hit the market, I don’t consider Microsoft to be good.
