My mom is 71 years old and she wants to have a computer. Because—according to her – “I will have a dictionary (she is trying to learn some English), a phone (I showed her how convenient to make oversea long distance calls with Skype), and a movie player all integrated into one device”. So, I let my mom play with my laptop while I was at work. The result was a disaster. Even though Windows 7 (I have Chinese version installed) is the most user-friendly OS in Microsoft’s history. It is still way beyond what my mom’s reach with minimum...