Microsoft's power to shore up vicious puppets like the ironically-named "IP-Innovation" (more like IP anti-innovation, what brain-dead MS exec thought that one up?) is fed by it's ridiculously large income stream.  A very efficient open source distribution network already exists that has the power to cut off these supply routes for Microsoft's legal artillery and brain-washing media manipulation.  That network is us.  

I have removed MS software and discouraged its future use on about 30 user's systems so far in the last two years, and have encouraged hundreds of people to download in install OpenOffice and Gimp.  Yes, this does take a bit of time and effort, but after a few systems I (like most of you) can almost install Linux distros while asleep, and I feel good about helping people break free and control their own hardware.  So if we do the math on this, even if only 3 of the 30 to date also help to propagate open source to another 30 people, and the rest just advertise the benefits of secure, free, user-controlled software (and send more people to me and other geeks), we have a nice exponential growth of open source, with a corresponding exponential loss of income and user confidence in Microsoft.  This will occur very rapidly if it is sustained.

The stigma of Microsoft's greed, arrogance, blatant manipulation of international politics and the ISO organization, continuous predatory legal attacks, and disregard/mistreatment of their own clients (through treating them as criminals, shackling them with DRM, lying to them, and by knowingly exposing them to harm via their insecure software products) now stains all of their products, and helping others to become aware of these issues will also help to accelerate open source adoption.  The greedy and arrogant legal actions of the RIAA has started a similar wave of revolt, with artists breaking free and no longer wanting to be associated with such a disgusting organization; we can ride and expand this wave to include the similarly-nasty Microsoft (who is, after all, in cahoots with the RIAA and all their DRM-buddies).