Tom Veatch writes:
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:07:43 -0400, Jack Stein
wrote:

I'm basically forced to use it because of his illegal
monopoly of the operating system market.

Have you notified the proper authorities about this illegal monopoly?


The US government has already won an anti-trust suit against
Microsoft for this. The European Union is currently proceeding
with an anti-trust action against microsoft.

The findings of fact, that Microsoft is a monopoly and abused
its monopoly position have been upheld.

So yes, the proper authorities have been informed and are
working the problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Microsoft_competition_case

scott