This site is for anyone who wishes to explore realistic alternatives to Microsoft software. Our aim is to provide accurate information about these alternatives and to provide a forum for discussing the costs and benefits of adopting a non-Microsoft solution to your software needs. We also try to provide news on industry and legal developments which may be relevant to anyone making decisions about deploying non-Microsoft software.

Please note that this is NOT an 'anti-Bill-Gates' site. Nor is it a 'Linux Fanatics' site. Nor is it exclusively devoted to Open Source software, because there are lots of proprietary alternatives to Microsoft software. We created Living Without Microsoft because the market dominance of Microsoft leads many non-technical people to assume that there really is no alternative to using its software. In many cases, there are real alternatives, and our aim is to help you find them.

Living Without Microsoft