There are so many reasons to Just Say No to Microsoft—the blue screen of death, Outlook email viruses, the never-ending influx of Windows patches… 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 show you how to become liberated.
Bove injects a healthy dose of humor into Just Say No to Microsoft, but his objective is sincere: to help you break your Microsoft addiction and free yourself from reliance on its ubiquitous software. After tracing Microsoft’s rise from tiny startup to monopolistic juggernaut, Just Say No to Microsoft chronicles how the company’s practices have discouraged innovation, stunted competition, and helped foster an environment ripe for viruses, bugs and hackers.
From there, Just Say No to Microsoft outlines the many available replacements for Windows and other Microsoft products, including the Office suite (Word, Excel, Outlook), Media Player, and Internet Explorer, and explains why your computing life will be better if you make the switch. With Bove’s thorough explanations of alternative operating systems like Linux and Mac and open source solutions, you can kiss the entire Windows operating system goodbye. And, Bove demonstrates how you’ll be able to interact successfully with your less-fortunate friends and colleagues who are still tied to Microsoft.
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Interview with ‘Just Say No to Microsoft’ author Tony Bove now online – October 17, 2005
I’ve said no since 1983!
I like funny, but that’s just nuts. I use Word and Excel. Zealots can be such bozos. MDN, get a clue.
Amazon has just 2 copies of this bok left. I hope that is a positive indication for Apple’ switch campaign.
MW: body. Why would anybody stick with Windows?
Well, Steve Jobs, the fact does also exist that the utter dominance of Microsoft Office guarantees that we will be getting less innovation. If there was a strong number two in this field we would have better products today.
Sounds like a must have read for my cross country plane ride to Macworld.
An interesting web site of the same name but not related to the book:
http://microsoft.toddverbeek.com/index.html
MS has to be the world’s most hated company. And they did it all to themselves.
I was at a small Apple dealer yesterday buying a video iPod and asked the sales person whether she had seen many switchers. She smiled and pointed to most of the other people in the shop and said, “they’re all switchers”. One man who had returned to the shop for the third time to buy more Apple stuff said, “I’m so happy! Now I can do some serious work and not be afraid of my computer.”
I’m proud to have never said yes. I’ve never owned a PC and I never will. If Apple ever goes out of business I’ll either switch to Linux, which I have absolutely no experience with, or I’ll give up computers entirely, and that’s a scary thought since I’m a Graphic Designer. I want nothing to do with Microsoft.
Why would a normal computer user ever want to use Linux????
Andrew: what is a ‘normal computer user’?
The beauty of OS X is that a Linux user would find it… ‘normal’ as well.
OS X presents the only integrated solution to ALL users, those who have a short easy list of requirements and those with needs proper to power users.
OS X combines the power of Unix (and simplicity for its users) and the simplicity of the Mac (and its unparalleled power in pro and consumer applications). It is a unique combination as Linux alone and Windows alone are unable to satisfy all needs of all kind of users. OS X, and only OS X so far, is able to do that: either you are a developer, an open source provider, a professional sw author, a professional photographer, a movie director or script writer in Hollywood, or a ‘normal computer user’ surfing the web, writing emails and sharing pictures and home video with family and friends.
All have their place with OS X. It as amazing so few have so far realised that: the Mac serves all and everyone.
“I’ll give up computers entirely, and that’s a scary thought since I’m a Graphic Designer. I want nothing to do with Microsoft”
I’ve considered the same thing. There’s always pencil and paper if Apple ever went under.
Just went to Buy.com to buy this book. There was this Terms Of Use thingie they threw up in front of me as I was registering, and believe it or not, I read it. Then I sent them an email and got out of there, like lickity split. Anyway, the thing I objected to was that they want me to agree that they are 100% totally and completely not responsible for the security of my account info, i.e., my credit card numbers.
If THAT’s what in all Terms Of Use policies at other online stores, I’ll not be buying anything else off the web. I’ll be reading them from now on.
Why is this a book?? Surely a short article is all that’s required, and if not, a website wiki.
Sounds like a scam to me.
Not “No” … f.o. maybe, or just “die” – the sooner the better.
Seahawk – I agree. In fact I read an article somewhere about how currently you find a higher percentage of Mac Users at the two ends of the bell curve – Uber Geeks who really know what the deal is and maybe want to have Unix command line, and low end totally non-power users like grandmas who just want to be able to do some simple things like email, digital pictures, and surf the web (without worrying about all those viruses, etc)
And now we are slowly moving more and more into the middle section of the curve. Personally, I consider myself one of the lucky few Mac Users in the middle section
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Using ” blue screen of death, Outlook email viruses, the never-ending influx of Windows patches…” as the main argument why windows is bad for you is not only dangerous but more or less wrong. Some windows users have no virus problems, quite a few do not feel they have great problems, many feel XP is more than stable enough. So they shouldn’t switch, no?
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For me, the main part is the user-friendliness of the Mac compared to windows, and the elegance in eveything från looks to dialogue buttons, and the fact that it simply WORKS! No pain (well, mostly
Oh, I forgot. Pointing out that MS has a record as most convicted and having the most out of court settlements in the history of capitalism (anybody have stats on this?) should not be forgotten
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hi everyone.
i used to be a M$-Windows technical support and user since 1992, and MOST of my time had been dealing with cleaning viruses, worms, and trojans, fixing corrupted partitions, repairing unstable windows networking protocols, downloading and installing lots and lots of patches. nowadays i used GNU/Linux for ALMOST ALL of my technical support works, work-stress relief games and educational reports. the only missing thing for me is that currently i do not have enough budget to buy apple mac os x desktop computer or laptop, but i had been using and supporting apple mac (older versions) and mac os x users too, and i always love apple mac since early 1990s during the era of DOS/win3.1/win3.11 OS, especially now mac os x fully took advantage of the 64bit architecture natively. now i am trying to save budget and hopefully one day i can have my own apple mac os x desktop computer or laptop, and start doing the lovely things it offered.