Mature people who have experienced the sensations generated by reckless gambling on horses or whatever and begin to recognise how addictive they could become tend to avoid or strictly ration the activity thereafter, but it takes a woman to pin down accurately the only attractions and benefits of graphical user interfaces to most computer users: writing in the Financial Times, Jean Marsh starts by describing Windows as an environment to be loaded after your computer has loaded MS-DOS, a perfectly good operating system, goes on to say that once you have a computer with enough power and memory, you are ready to go out and buy Windows programs to do the work you are already doing, adds Why? Because Windows is fun, that’s why, suggests that pushing a mouse around, clicking here and there, makes you feel powerful and authoritative, and concludes, after a description of the patience or solitaire game, You will never do any work again.
