Lessons learned: Challenges abound as designers tackle integrated software, artificial intelligence, and user-friendliness

The importance of software in the microcomputer field is stressed. Advances in hardware have led to software improvements in three areas: power, functionality, and user assistance. The greater power of today´s personal computer software is exhibited not only in performing its intended functions; designers of user-friendly software are also drawing on this power in an attempt to compensate for user inexperience and to accommodate the differing demands placed on software by different uses.