"The Best Software...."

["Richard A. Sherer" rasherer@xxxxxxxx]

	"My friend Marion, who chairs the department of nutrition at New York
University and has been a dedicated computer user for 16 years, can hardly
be described as a techno-phobe. But she does have a
technology problem: upgrade resistance," writes Charles Piller in today's
Los Angeles Times.
	"In 1983, Marion adopted the word processor XyWrite, once a market
contender but nowadays of interest primarily to computer-trivia buffs."
	In an article headed "The Best Software Is the Kind You Know How to Use,"
Piller details Marion's struggles to stay with XyWrite in a hostile world.
Finally, it's too much for her.
	"In 1996 she upgraded to a Windows computer, ending her love affair with
XyWrite; the Windows version was a Microsoft Word look-alike."
	"Even now, there isn't a single thing that gets done on Word that goes
faster than I could do with XyWrite," Marion is quoted as saying. "It
brings me to tears when I'm in a bad mood."

Piller's article can be read at
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/BUSINESS/t000118403.1.html

Richard A. Sherer
Computer Trivia Buff and active XyWrite user