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Microsoft's Ballmer Kills Print

As an aside comment, I remember all the talk about the "paperless" office back in 1984. Are they paperless today, nearly a quarter century later? I thought not.

Microsoft's Ballmer Kills Print

Steve Ballmer is self-serving in saying what he does, but Jeff Jarvis and the other media hacks are simply gullible in re-iterating the received wisdom that newspapers and magazines will simply disappear in X years. I would pay three times the current cost of a newspaper so that I can carry on reading it in bed on a Saturday morning. I am sorry, but perching a laptop in bed with the battery pack scorching my abdomen just does not cut it. There must be millions of people like me. Maybe newspapers and magazines will become niche products, but to say they will disappear is utter bunk. Now if only we could make computers, cellphones and PDAs disappear and go back to the way we were in less stressful times...