Amazon.com: Just Say No to Microsoft: How to Ditch Microsoft and Why It’s Not as Hard as You Think: Books

I met Tony Bove and his wife Cheryl at the West Coast Computer Faire in 1983. He was friendly to a very young and not very knowledgeable computer journalist. So I review his latest book JUST SAY NO TO MICROSOFT with pleasure.As the reviews suggest, this book does indeed offer a good history of desktop computing and a variety of strategies for ridding oneself of Microsoft dependency. I found most of it plausible but I didn’t think that Tony convinced me on the key issue: can I do without Microsoft Office? That was until I became an Office 12 beta tester … There is some nice stuff in Office 12 but there are also many steps backward, and I can’t see any reasonable path forward for Office 13. I’m going to try Open Office for a while and see what happens.

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