Dan Gillmor: Microsoft independent, one year on

A year ago Mercury News columnist Dan Gillmor decided to try and rid his life of Microsoft. He failed, as this very fair report one year on admits; he still uses MS Word (for Mac OS X) to write up his stuff, and prefers MS's superb Entourage for Mac for his email and scheduling over anything else. But, along the way, he has found a lot of interesting things about the non-Microsoft world. Even if you can't be bothered with the rest of the piece, the final paragraphs on why Gillmor embarked on this mission are worth reading. "There are more reasons than ever to look for alternatives," he writes.