chrisv <chrisv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Linonut wrote:
>
>>After takin' a swig o' grog, tblanchard001@xxxxxxxxx belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>>>
>>> Here's a link to the page I found.
>>> http://web.archive.org/web/20000818081805/http://www.microsoft.com/OEM/nakedPC.htm
>>
>>Cool. We had seen that and laughed a lot about in COLA a few years
>>back. In fact, it was laughed about in so many IT web venues that
>>Microsoft yanked the page so that people like DFS could claim there was
>>never any such stupid thing put out by Microsoft.
>>
>>Good to see someone archived it for posterity.
>
> I love this line:
>
> "Trouble is, if you act on your customers' willingness to buy Naked
> PCs?knowing full well they are at risk of acquiring pirated operating
> systems elsewhere you expose them to legal risks, viruses, and
> frustrating technical troubles."
>
> Of course, people who by PC's with Windwoes pre-installed never have
> problems with viruses or "frustrating technical troubles"... 8)
>
It's a highly entertaining read, isn't it? One thing which truly amazes
me is how so many people are prepared to take this stuff at face value.
Don't these local OEM people realise that they can make /far more/ money
by offering pre-installed free software, and yet still sell for less
than putting Windows on? It's all about economics...
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