I don’t know if he’s angling for an ad spot with Apple but Stephen Fry is laying into Microsoft with a passion. He knows his stuff and is getting a TON of comments from the geekerati. Why he doesn’t appear on Techmeme is beyond me.
Stephen should be required reading by anyone interested in beautiful prose, carefully argued thought and humour. He is one of those rare people gifted in all three arts. He also knows a lot about geek stuff. Which is even rarer. Here’s your starter for ten (pun intended):
I am writing this article on a kind of mini John the Baptist, a system that prepares the way of the software saviour whose coming will deliver the 90% of world computer users who suffer under Windows from the expensive, clumsy, costly, ugly, pricey toils of Microsoft.
