Having occasion to download an article from yesterday's Guardian about how some scientists think they can reverse age related loss of memory function using electrical pulses, I thought I might pay them back by becoming a digital subscriber, which only looked to cost of the order of £10 a month, which seem a reasonable amount to give them.
But the website included much talk of apps and ipads, so I thought I better check with their customer support. Several layers of computer aided telephone call later, I got through to a person who was quite clear that digital access to the Guardian was not available to owners of laptops powered by Microsoft Windows.
Which seemed a pity and I wondered why the people at the Guardian preferred to do business with Apple rather than Microsoft: I would have thought one was just as bad as the other from a lefty point of view. Or was the problem that from a Windows laptop it was far too easy to capture (aka steal) content, as indeed I had just done - not that I plan to recycle it for personal gain of the monetary variety.
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