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I’m not a Microsoft-basher; I use their products productively virtually every day of my life. Excel is my workhorse, Word my constant companion for nearly a decade, PowerPoint my standard for presentations, Visio Professional a powerful tool in my arsenal, and I rely on Outlook to keep track of notes, emails, contacts, tasks, and my calendar. I have also been using Internet Explorer since about 1996, when it came pre-loaded on a computer I bought. I found it to be adequate, and certainly seemed to be on the cutting edge (anybody remember “push technology”?). But increasingly over time it came...

They travel around the country in tie-dyed T-shirts banging homemade drums and singing ear-crunching songs. They set up websites to organize themselves as they tour from city to city. Wherever they go, local police must mobilize to prevent rioting. If you guessed the fans of Ozzy Osbourne, you're way off. No, this is the new anti-corporate protest movement, one that has become so zealous, so diffuse and so devoted to full-time rabble-rousing they could make even Ozzy's fans blush. And soon they could be coming to a town near you. That's because this is the time of year when most...