Get Off Microsoft

Will customers trust Microsoft enough to buy a security product from them as well as an operating system that needs to be protected? Only if Microsoft makes an offer you couldn’t refuse.

Would the switch to Open Source software — or for that matter, anything that’s not Microsoft — be as attractive or even more attractive to individual/home computer users than business users?

Microsoft is gearing up to offer security services and incremental updates, and the fees for these services and updates — which every zombie PC will require — could keep the company profitable for years to come.

My test results point out the folly of relying on benchmarks that measure performance outside the norm. If the difference between one program’s save and another program’s save is the blink of an eye, there is no difference.

Don’t base your choice of OpenOffice.org or Microsoft Office on such as simple comparison as George Ou’s test.

This major overhaul of OpenOffice.org adds OpenDoc support and a database.

Microsoft is still having trouble securing Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003.

Microsoft settles with Real and buys its way out of antitrust litigation from the European Union.

News of my book Just Say No to Microsoft is hitting the Web.

Can Microsoft’s own bug fixes be trusted? Not until Microsoft has the opportunity to sell you its “new” system first.