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1. Require Microsoft to publish complete documentation of all interfaces between software components, all communications protocols, and all file formats. This would block one of Microsoft's favourite tactics: secret and incompatible interfaces.
Yah they keep finding unpublished M$ API's all the time, and by "they" I mean M$.
. Windoze Media Player comes to mind.
Education, education, education. That's the only way M$ will ever be beat, well unless they go tits up because we actually find that their accountants were just as "innovative" as their so called engineers.
No, we / you need to educate people as to why a world without M$ would be better, educate people that yes, there is a wrong and a right way of doing things. Then perhaps people will decide for themselves, make the right choice when presented with the facts.