"Guerilla warfare is sweeping across the IT industry as organised bands of revolutionaries seek to challenge the established order.
"Gone are the great set-piece battles of the past. The Microsoft empire has seen off all threats to its hegemony, and challengers such as IBM, Lotus, Apple and WordPerfect have been beaten into submission.
"Once-great gladiators such as Unix, NetWare, Macintosh and Java have downed swords in the war against Windows.
"Today, the software industry has only one superpower: Microsoft.
"Now this New World Order faces a different type of challenge..."
