"...we'd like to note that the Mac's version of plug and play predates the PC's, and is still better."

"As an attempt to improve the human-computer interface, Windows 95 is a failure."

"...the average consumer will never have anything to do with something as labyrinthine as Windows 95."

"Windows 95 is so bad, I hardly know where to start."

"Gates and company talk about total cost of ownership and never once take responsibility for the fact that Microsoft has created an operating system that encourages sloppy practices and continuously degraded performance."

Three weeks ago, I wrote that my own PC is not exactly a model of stability. In fact, even after the years I've spent installing every type of application ever invented, my Windows 95 system crashes at least once or twice a day, sputtering, "Fatal exception 0E" or "GPF in Kernel32.exe."

"...Microsoft completed its two-year project to wean the company's Web server farm off competing Unix products and onto NT servers...
Within hours of the switchover, on June 19, hackers began cracking NT security, jamming the site and interrupting service to 1 million daily visitors. The situation was particularly embarrassing, given that NT competitors, especially Sun Microsystems, had been attacking NT's supposedly lax security in press releases for months."

Marc Andreessen: "You know, I put a CD-ROM in my computer, and it doesn't work, I don't know why. My printer doesn't work right now - I'm getting weird error messages, and then it stops printing after a while. It freezes all the time. It crashes."

Rolling Stone: "Is this a Mac or Windows machine?"

MA: "This is a Windows box. This isn't complicated stuff; this is a Dell Pentium PC running Windows 95, running standard applications like Word and Excel. It's just far too complicated to actually try to understand. Many people who work in the PC industry have technical-support staffs that come in and fix things so they run properly, so these people don't notice this. But for most people, it's just a nightmare."

The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.

-Douglas Adams, on Windows '95

"The Pentium II will not be available in a notebook version until 1998 because of power consumption and heat issues. The PowerPC 750, on the other hand, is expected to find its way into notebook PCs from Apple and possibly other Macintosh clone vendors this year."

"The fact that an even faster version of the chip was running in a notebook showed the advantages this design has over Intels newest processor, the Pentium II."

There's plenty of people out there that hate the evil empire. Remember, there are always better solutions than M$-ware.

"By controlling the browser market, attorney Reback charged, Microsoft `can control where your eyes go in Internet commerce.' For example, it can configure Internet Explorer's Channel buttons to favor certain Web sites that pay Microsoft or that Microsoft owns."

PowerComputing printed this picture on shirts at a MacWorld expo. The 225mhz 604e kicked the crap out of any Wintel offerings at that time. Move up to RISC architecure! The Other Chronicles master, slave? Every time I go into IRC, someone is having troubles installing a hard drive in their PC. I have a good time watching everyone tell the guy what jumpers to change. One guy's cartridge drive wouldn't work at the same time as his sound card. Just go into any windows related channel and see for yourself.

The Levi Chronicles This section is dedicated to reporting the problems with my roommate's new P133 Win95 system and our two gaming PCs. Levi moved out, so I guess I can't make fun of his computer anymore :( Latest news: Someone screwed up Levi's Windoze files, so it was off the technicians. One day and $90 later, he was back to reconfiguring his system. At least his modem actually works at 33.6 now. Floppy troubles: 'A' drive reads by itself. Levi's A drive has been trying to access it's A drive at random intervals. The problem is reported to be related to virus checking software or his screen saver. More to come... Previous news: Modem Speed Woes: The cheap internal 33.6 he got with his Wintel system lags when it comes to the internet. The problem could also be Win95. Solutions involving patches are being investigated. Until then, 5 hour downloads will be commonplace. Related news: One of the 486s in our living room had to be reformated because of a botched Linux installation. Recovering it took all day. Quake, uneven foundations: Don't try to play net Quake for too long on that beastly thing, like we have (CRASH!). You'll find out you're about 30 bytes short.