Name of the Computer Game Is More Fun, Less Productivity
One of the enduring mysteries of the personal computer age is why studies continue to show no appreciable increase in personal productivity from the increasingly powerful machines on nearly everybodyÛªs desk. HereÛªs a heretical theory: part of the trouble is Microsoft Windows.</br></br>ThatÛªs right. The very software designed to make computers more accessible and easier to learn and use in fact detracts from getting work done. And the reason is thereÛªs far too much choice and flexibility in configuring the software to the userÛªs persona) taste.</br></br>What makes Windows potentially helpful to workers is that it presents an easy way to operate a computer, and a common set of menus and commands that appear not only in Windows itself, but in the application software designed to work with Windows. So far, so good.</br></br>But once you learn your way around Windows, you discover you can, with just a few clicks of your mouse, make all kinds of changes.</br></br>You can, for example, change the color scheme, the icons used to represent programs, the size of the windows and their location. The list goes on. Perhaps the biggest waster of timeÛÓand moneyÛÓis the vast selection of "screen savers" on the market.