Billy, Don't Be A Hero (4/22/98)
The cry of sweet, sweet comeuppance was heard 'round the world when Billy Bob Thornton Gates was caught red-OS'd at a major media event during which Windows 98... crashed.That glorious moment, which caused geeks worldwide to suddenly find religion, was followed by an announcement that Microsoft had never given out a June 25 street date for W98 (they had), and that the release date is imminent (we bet).
It remains to be seen just how many computer users will actually care about Win98. Given that the installation takes up a whopping 175 megabytes of hard drive, (equivalent to 200 copies of the Amiga's Workbench 2.0 operating system), and the fact that 95% of all home computer owners in the U.S. wouldn't know what an operating system was if it bit them in the ass, sales projections for W98 are considerably lower than for W95.
Still, with Win95, Microsoft proved you can polish a turd, so anything is possible, especially if you've got the entire global home computer market by the short and curlies.
