---> About the Enhancement Software <---


The Microsoft philosopy is to advertise that their software does  
virtually everything.  The company therefore bundles dozens of mini-
programs called "applets" with their Windows products, so that they can 
legally advertise that Windows offers the feature in question.  Most of 
these applets are pretty lame however. 

To the rescue has come a number of 3rd party vendors who believe that 
they can make better versions of Microsofts applets.  Because most of 
these programs are so small, many are offered for Free (either due to 
the goodness of the programmers heart, or because the company hopes 
that if you like their free applet, you will also want their expensive 
commercial software offerings).  

Included here are several FREE programs that can replace Microsofts
bundled applets.  They are very good, and I use most of them myself.  

==========

Extra:
You may also want to view the anonymous editorial cartoon in this folder
called "FOLLOWME.jpg", which pokes fun at Microsofts' business model, as
well as visit the informative "Just Say NO to Microsoft" web site at:

	http://microsoft.toddverbeek.com/index.html


.