On one hand Microsoft is driving the world of computing into the ultimate bore. Windows 95 is turning whole segments of the population off the joy of computing and off computers altogether for a long time. On the other hand, Apple Computer, which used to be our screen to the future, is lacking the courage to go on changing the world. The computer business is an innovation business not a commodity business. Silicon Graphic's Ed McCracken's view of the computer industry is right on the mark.
People love innovation.
People want technology to be at their service and not the opposite. That's how Sony became a consumers' favorite. And by not following the common wisdom, Akio Morita's Sony became one this century's industrial icons. Microsoft, in spite of the constant brain-washing by the media, is nobody's icon. That's why I would like to congratulate Jean-Louis Gassee, my 1995 laureate for technology person of the year.