IBM recently announced that they were going to begin to eliminate telecommuting. The announcement, which if you ask me sounded more like an ultimatum, mentioned that all of IBMs people worldwide would need to consolidate into a small number of offices and that working from home would no longer be permitted.
Remember this as one of one of Microsoft’s many slogans? – I think this was when Bill was launching Windows 95, with a whole host of new, cool stuff. Radical, dude.
Yes, it was a whole new interface – with the menu bar at the bottom. Yes, it would require retraining. Yes, it was “plug and play” when you plugged something in, it would magically appear on the desktop (Macs had done this for years so Bill was just catching up at the time)