[lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 65, Issue 3

Tim Francis-Wright tim at francis-wright.com
Fri Mar 2 11:01:18 PST 2007


Doug Henwood wrote: [has any Microsoft product ever gotten reviews as bad as Vista has?]

Well, there's Microsoft Bob <http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/001614.html> but there's also PowerPoint, which Edward Tufte argues was responsible for NASA's shoddy thinking during Columbia's last flight. <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.html> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/29/AR2005082901444_pf.html>

A sillier look at PowerPoint is the Gettysburg Address, if done in default PPT style. <http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/>

--tim francis-wright



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