Computer Standardization Is Critical These Days
“YOU GOTTA LOOK AT THIS presentation I just put together,” a colleague said over the phone. “It’s in your electronic mailbox now.” I dutifully signed on, downloaded the file, and opened it up. Kind of. It looked like a programmer had been cursing his keyboard. Lots of symbols, a few real numbers here and there–but nothing presentable. Why? It was created in freelance Graphics for Windows; I don’t have Freelance, and I use a Mac.
The holy grail for computer manufacturers and publishers is to create a proprietary system that be comes …