maybe some small companies can find the guts to save themselves from Beast Tax.
Ah, I assumed you were talking about you in the original. At any rate, you are one of the most vociferous anti-M$ posters here, yet you still run with the beast. So if I can prod and poke you until you switch, I will consider the evangelistic message received, executed, and finished :-)
imagine how many out there have no idea what .zip is for.. let alone a umm tarball (et al).
Don't I know it. Just yesterday I helped walk a guy (who was supposed to be a techie) on the phone through unzipping a password protected zip file, and importing the the comma-quote delimited text file into Excel...