Another Word For Microsoft


November 10, 2001


BOB GARFIELD: Well look, as long as I have this thing up on my screen, let me just throw some other words in. [KEYBOARDING] Microsoft is bad.

MAN'S RECORDED VOICE: Microsoft is good.

BOB GARFIELD: Huh! Genius! [KEYBOARDING]

MAN'S RECORDED VOICE: Gates.

BOB GARFIELD: Bold. [KEYBOARDING]

MAN'S RECORDED VOICE: Gates.

BOB GARFIELD: Megalomaniac. [KEYBOARDING]

MAN'S RECORDED VOICE: Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson.

BOB GARFIELD: Gates. [KEYBOARDING]

MAN'S RECORDED VOICE: Batman.

BOB GARFIELD: Robin? [KEYBOARDING]

MAN'S RECORDED VOICE: Paul Allen [sp?].

BOB GARFIELD: Evil. [KEYBOARDING]

MAN'S RECORDED VOICE: Linux.

BOB GARFIELD: Um-- hm-- monopoly. [KEYBOARDING]

MAN'S RECORDED VOICE: Mythological phenomenon. See also, alchemy, chimera, Easter Bunny.

BOB GARFIELD: [LAUGHS] How about -- buxom. [KEYBOARDING]

MAN'S RECORDED VOICE: Melinda. [MUSIC]

BOB GARFIELD: That's it for this week's show. On the Media was produced by Janeen Price and Katya Rogers; engineered by George Edwards and Dylan Keefe, and edited-- by Brooke. We had help from Michael Cavanaugh [sp?], Andy Lanset [sp?] and Giselle Foss [sp?]. Our web master is Amy Pearl.

BROOKE GLADSTONE:Mike Pesca is our producer at large; Arun Rath our senior producer and Dean Cappello our executive producer. Bassist/composer Ben Allison wrote our theme. You can listen to the program and get free transcripts at onthemedia.org and e-mail us at onthemedia@wnyc.org. And we'd like to say hello to some new stations who have picked up the show: WUNC in Raleigh, North Carolina; KACU in Abilene, Texas and WFMW in Frostburg [sp?], Maryland. [THEME MUSIC UP AND UNDER] This is On the Media from National Public Radio. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

BOB GARFIELD: And I'm Bob Garfield.