the overlooked part of the antitrust settlement was MSFT having to (more or less) document its document formats. that makes it possible to have these... <A HREF="http://openoffice.org" target="_new">http://openoffice.org</A> <A HREF="http://www.thinkfree.com" target="_new">http://www.thinkfree.com</A> and that strikes at the heart of MSFT's margins. still a ways to go, but the pieces are all starting to fall into place.