Chapter 18 - Juula promises to get a "new and improved" DEL back on phones and tablets

THE STORY OF DEL - Delete

"Good morning, Del! Ready for the big day?"

"Sure, what do you have in mind?"

"A tour... to a place you've often seen but never noticed."

"I like it already. Where?"

"A page in MS Word."

"Eh? Microsoft Word? I must've done two-thirds of all my work there - even starting before Windows. If there's one place that holds no mysteries for me!"

"So you might think, my sweet bundle of mashed-up bones, so you might think!"

"Okay, I believe you, number one because I have to and number two because I want to. But may I ask why?"

"Yes, of course. You feel that you were unjustly removed from the telephones and tablets of the world, correct?"

"Well, I can't say 'unjustly' - there wasn't any room for two deletion buttons, so they left the big guy - they left Backspace... but all right, yes, it hurts."

"What if I told you I could get you back? That all the keyboards, big and small, real and virtual will one day be lining up for you again?!"

"Whoa!"

"Not the same exact version of you, but a Delete 2.0 - a SuperDel, a one button WonderDel. And that's why we have to pay a visit to Microsoft's most famous cash cow: MS Word. Do you trust me?"

"Yes!!!"

"By the way, did you know that Bill Gates is planning to send lots of dust into the atmosphere to save the world from Global Warming?"

"Yes, I remember reading about it somewhere. Sounds crazy!"

"It is. And criminal too, but the point is that this megalomaniac is the same man - who more than anyone else - taught the world how to write on electronic devices. So by proving him wrong, not only will we improve text editing for humanity, but we'll also be saving the planet from a madman... not to mention getting your job back."

"Whoa!"

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