Don‘t buy windows if you’re just writing short letters and you needn’t blend anything else into them or regularly don’t consult other material.
But consider them if, say, you want to look at many spreadsheets quickly while writing reports.
Think what this means to executives with cluttered disks, er, desks. They can stash their material away electronically and not have to print hard copies as often in the future.
“I can imagine people having as many as twenty or thirty windows ready to call up with notes or working papers,” says John Butler, a product manager with Microsoft.
Also, windows software may let you switch noticeably faster from one program to another. And with a RAM (temporary computer memory) above 500K, you may even be able to do so instantly.
The plus of this? You won’t need to return as often to your computer’s operating system and feed the programs one by one into the RAM.
So the machine may seem to impose itself less between you and your work.
When “windows shopping,” however, you should ask these questions and more:[[105]]
1. Is the convenience worth the extra several hundred dollars you’ll be paying for the window software alone if it doesn’t come with your computer?
2. Up to how many windows can you see on your screen at once?