JUST SAY NO TO MICROSOFT (No Starch Press)

October 25, 2005, San Francisco-There are so many reasons to say no to Microsoft-the blue screen of death, Outlook email viruses, the endless dump of Windows patches, and so on. And yet, with Microsoft owning the lion’s share of the desktop market, how can anyone escape the Beast from Redmond and still function? It’s not as hard as you think, and author Tony Bove is only too happy to explain how to become liberated in his new book, JUST SAY NO TO MICROSOFT (No Starch Press, October ‘05). As PC Magazine columnist John Dvorak says in his introduction, “You are about to read one of the most interesting overviews of modern desktop computing history that’s ever been written.”

This looks like an entertaining read. For book-lovers, thouogh, I should point out that Microsoft has had a laudable long-term commitment to improving the fundamentals of the on-line reading experience through its Microsoft Reader software. It’s a pity that Reader hasn’t caught on as well as PDF.

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