BW )(: Institute advises EU to forbid windows pre-instaled on PC's

[Steve Woods]

Quoting Andy Gale <andy at mentalist.co.uk>:

> On 9/24/07, Andy S <andys at bristolwireless.net> wrote:
>
> > >From http://www.globalisation.eu/ - Un-bundling M$ Windows - .pdf doc
> > linked..
> >
> > I'm with that!
>
> I'm not. It'll just means everyone will have to pay more for Windows
> when they buy PCs and will have to deal with the installation and
> driver pain that we are currently saved because it's all pre-installed
> and tested for us. Shall we stop Apple bundling Mac OS X when we're at
> it?
>
It means useless box shifters like PC World will actually have to employ some
people who actually know what they're doing for a change.

If it means no payment of the Windows tax, I'm all for it, particularly if it
means that the price differential between the consumer and OEM versions of
Redmond's shoddy offerings is reduced: at present the OEM version is virtually
given away for nothing.

Woodsy

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