The   SMASH MICRO$OFT page
Home of the Anti-Microsoft League
Yes thats right, I dislike Microsoft. Not just a little, but intensely. I hate battling with their stupid and baroque operating systems, I loathe what they are doing to the world of software development and the software industry in general, and I watch in dread as Microsoft spreads its tentacles into other areas such as entertainment, news and networks. Most of all though, I fear for the future of personal freedom of all kinds in a world where a company with the warped moral ethos of Microsoft can attain such vast and growing wealth and power. Does anyone seriously believe that we can safely allow such a company (and man) to achieve total monopoly over the very tools we depend on to support our technological civilisation?

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.

GuyD's essays on Microsoft and PCs in general

 "Any sufficiently overcomplicated and laywer-driven technology is indistinguishable from excreta."
Arthur C. Clarity 


mouse_rg.htm  Mouse Rage! And its all Microsoft's fault 12,101

  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.zip  All of the above zipped into one file    112,494

Anti-MS texts I've downloaded

There is such a vast amount of anti-MS material available, its probably humanly impossible to read or absorb more than a tiny fraction of it. Besides, I've got better ways to spend my time than fuming about Microsoft (believe it or not.) Still, sometimes I spot an article that seems particularly well written, or damming, (or funny) and so I download and stick it up here, hopefully to give it more exposure.
I archive the actual articles, rather than just a link to their original locations, since I'm very cynical about the wisdom of relying on others for information continuity. Naturally, with html being what it is, this results in lots of broken links and missing graphics in the articles. Tough. Consider the ugliness of some such pages as a lesson in how unpleasant information archaeology will be in years to come, thanks to html. Plain text is better, but the right way to do it is described in Evergreen. 

antisuit.txt  A Libertarian comment on the anti-MS suit.  19,066

  win_tp.txt  New MS product: Windows TelePathics.         4,685

pie_face.txt  Interview with org. of pie-attack on BG     10,764

standovr.txt  MS uses standover tactics to sell software   3,336

 pir_ms1.txt  From Love to Hate: 15 Years of MS Products  12,409

 doj_not.txt  The DOJ lawsuit is not the answer!           3,945

     013.htm  Can Microsoft be successfully challenged?    3,935

 alstosh.htm  Musings on the downfall of Microsoft        11,363

cw960820.htm  Who's Afraid Of Big Bad Bill? Everyone.      7,004

 ie_hole.htm  Internet Explorer- Security hole report      7,317

story_78.htm  How IE 4.0 Will Drag Us All Down            28,441

doi_need.txt  The MS mindset, by an ex-employee           11,205

ms_secur.txt  Notes on Win95 password/registration         3,021

bg_devil.txt  OK, its numerology, but...                   1,223

b_l_zeeb.txt  Sympathy for the devil                       4,947

c_church.txt  MS buys the Catholic Church                  4,387

   quake.txt  Problems with MS products at ID software     2,245

     dna.htm  Douglas Adams on Microsoft                   5,740

  father.txt  Bill releases Baby (tm) Ver 1.0              1,448

 his_own.txt  Bill gets some of his own medicine           3,091

microsux.c    MS commercial operations algorithm           4,858

   msdos.htm  The Quick Story of MS/DOS and Win95          5,686

ms_obsvt.htm  Observations and predictions about MS        4,301

 ms_cars.txt  If Microsoft made cars...                    1,880

nyt_plot.txt  NYTimes Speculations on Gates Conspiracy    16,026

panhandl.txt  New MS product: Panhandler.                  2,714

sun_sues.txt  MS attempts to ruin Java - Sun sues MS.      5,975

ms_jokes.txt  Assorted jokes on/about Microsoft.             591
If you have anything else you'd like to see here, send me a copy. Likewise, if you wrote it, and you don't want it here, tell me. Any articles which are unattributed are only so because the downloaded text didn't contain any. Where I know the source, I mention it. So let me know.

Pictures

A few graphic rasberries to Microsoft, their products and their leader.
Click on thumbnails for full size images.

MS Never! Not as good yet as it could be. Remember Pac-Man, and the chomping circles? Also, the 'missile' should impact with a huge explosion (destruction of Earth?)
BG and the cream pies See the Movie! 700KB of MPG, but worth every byte.
More cream pies Some higher resolution stills.

The Win 3.1 start Logo
Someday I'll get around
to one for Win95/98/00
The Load Ahead.
What Bill has for us.
Glorious Leader.

Code

Are you compelled by forces beyond your control to install Lose95, but want to keep your old Lose3.1 and DOS setups functional? You have some treasured applications that require DOS 6.2 to run? Then this is for you:-

Other things that you may find useful:-

Web Links

There are now so many anti-MS sites, that attempting to list them all would be beyond my time resources.
So I'll just list lists of anti-MS sites:-

Examples of the other side's point of view

Stop persecuting BG & MS Actually, I agree with many of the arguments against government intervention. Much as it pains me to admit it.

Other sources of anti-MS information


Newsgroups (To which you can also, of course, send anti-MS information.)

    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. Least of all Bill Gates.)



    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.)



    Undocumented DOS (2nd Ed, 1994)

    Andrew Schulman (and others)

    ISBN 0-201-63287-X  Addison Wesley

    A detailed and justifyably cynical look at the tricks MS plays with

    what _should_ be a public interface. Very technical.

    Also covers the legal issue of 'reverse engineering' and concludes that

    MS licence warnings against code disassembly are toothless yapping.



    There are also companion books from the same publisher:-

    - Undocumented Windows (Schulman 0-201-60834-0)

    - The undocumented PC (Gilluwe 0-201-62277-7)

    - Dissecting DOS (Podanoffsky 0-201-62687-X)
But most importantly, 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.
There's no point just sitting around complaining about Microsoft, if we don't think about what the fundamental problem here is, how to fix it, and actually start actions to rid ourselves of this evil once and for all.

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This page is Copyright 1998, Guy Dunphy, and may be
distributed subject to The Microsoft General Exclusion Licence.
This also applies to all the sub-pages and texts written by GuyD.