On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 15:16:58 -0400 Rich3800@aol.com wrote:
What I like about Microsoft is that Microsoft is only a tempory phenomenon, a business aberration, a bump-in-the-road. In a few years, people will think back and laugh and say "Microsoft? What was Microsoft?" people will be hard-pressed to even remember what Microsoft was and meant.
I have (respectfully) to disagree. Like hoover and biro, it will remain. As a noun: "He's a real microsoft" - arrogant, over-bearing, and a bit (lot) meglomaniacal. As a verb: "She's really microsofted that project" - (expletively) badly fsck-ed, late, but has a good gloss on it, as gloss is all that matters. And as no doubt many other parts of speech, either in addition to vocabulary: "This engine's well and truly microsoftly fsck-ed" or in replacement: "This microsofting microsofter microsofting microsofted" HTH Terence