October 1997

Michael Kinsley writes in Slate that they read in the Washington Post (online, of course) about a speech Bill Gates gave at Cambridge saying that he preferred reading magazines that came in the mail. Gates said he couldn't read anything more than three pages long on a computer screen. Kinsley comments: "Whoa. These words came as quite a shock to those of us who have spent the past year and a half trying to develop, on behalf of the Microsoft Corp., a magazine whose distinguishing characteristic is that it does not come in the mail."