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> It’s true that the first time they realized you could completely remap the keyboard in Word, they changed everything around to be more to their liking, but as soon as they upgraded to Windows 95 those settings got lost, and they weren’t the same at work, and eventually they just stopped reconfiguring things.

Who is "we"? That didn't describe me in 2000 and describes me even less today.

Being able to moving the taskbar is bad because his friend shot herself in the foot this one time, but "we all love Winamp skins" -- because the person whose winamp turned unusable because they double clicked the wrong file just didn't happen to be friends with Joel. Sure, don't make software for me, but don't try to rationalize it with such gymnastics.



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