This page is my small attempt to show up what Microsoft really is; to use facts and humour to convince you of the threat Microsoft represents. To demonstrate that despite the immense tide of Microsoft hype, there is a growing counter-surge of awareness, resentment and resistance worldwide - that in doubting, you are not of the fringe.
Then to show you that we need not suffer this fate, that there is a way out of the Microsoft Madness.

My writings on this page tend to be more vitriolic than philosophic. Here you'll find mostly articles that had no place in the relevent sections of my book. For a calmer examination of the nature of humanity's interaction with technology, how digital information systems are (and should be) transforming our society, and how to finally kill off Microsoft and anything like it, refer to the technology related sections of my book Evergreen.

  sep_os.txt  Why OS and Web Browser must be separate   16,765
  doj_ms.txt  The DOJ vs MS case - I've changed my mind  3,404
prune_95.txt  Cutting Windows 95 down to size            3,681
007_bill.txt  'Tomorrow Never Dies' spoofs MS/Bill G!    4,839
 ms_stop.htm  Forcing laywer-Bill to look in a mirror    6,388
 dear_ms.txt  A letter in reply to MS junk mail          3,400
hailbill.txt  Salute the glorious leader (not)           5,373
 hail_b_.txt  Some people just don't understand          1,820
lic_agre.txt  By opening this package...                 4,357
 why_txt.txt  Use plain text whenever possible          10,294
 w95_com.txt  Comments on Win95, by an unbeliever(1/2)  30,559
 w95_woe.txt  Windows Woes, and the MS Mindset   (2/2)  21,830
  win-95.txt  More gripes about Windows 95              11,310
metaprod.txt  The software package from hell            17,890
 ms_uses.txt  What is Micro$oft good for anyway?         3,704
 pc_prot.txt  A question about Windows mem prot.         3,205
hone_486.txt  Recycle those old CPU chips                1,883
  no_law.txt  How licence agreements should be             886
conspire.txt  PCs - the conspiracy theory               58,184
  cpu_86.txt  More about Intel architecture than MS      7,270
 doom_os.txt  On the future of operating systems        13,073
mistakes.txt  Where MS went wrong (superficial)         10,459
 monster.txt  About my C:\WINDOWS directory                461
  a-ms-l.txt  Email about forming the Anti-MS League     2,438
taglines.txt  Some more GuyD taglines, re Microsoft      1,322

Anti-MS texts I've downloaded

The downloaded articles are omitted from this zipped file, but are available from my Smash Microsoft web page.

If you have anything else you'd like to see here, send me a copy.

Other sources of anti-MS information

Newsgroups
    alt.destroy.microsoft
    alt.fan.bill-gates
    alt.conspiracy
    alt.evil
    alt.nuke.the.USA
    aus.computers.ibm-pc
    comp.os.ms-windows.misc
    alt.flame
    aus.flame
    comp.sys.ibm.pc
    comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
    aus.politics
Listserves
    comp.risks (risks @csl.sri.com)
Books
    Microsoft Secrets
    Michael A. Cusumano & Richard W. Selby.
    ISBN 0-02-874048-3   The Free Press
    (On the mindset inside MS. Prepare to feel sick.)

    High Noon on the Electronic Frontier
    Ed: Peter Ludlow  1996
    ISBN 0-262-12196-4
    (Not so much about MS, but about the social context in which they operate.)

    Accidental Empires
    Robert X Cringely
    Penguin books
    (Historical. About personal computers in general. Nobody knew what the
    heck was going on.)

    Where Wizards Stay Up Late
    The origins of the Internet
    Katie Hafner & Mathew Lyon
    ISBN 0-684-81201-0   Simon & Schuster 1996
    (A demonstration of how MS didn't invent networking, and how _real_
    software can be developed co-operatively.)

But most of all, have a look at the Everist Manifesto, in the chapters related to computing technology, its relationships with society, how we are getting it wrong, what must be done, and how to do it.