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[News] How Many Linux-curious OEMs Does Microsoft Threaten Behind Closed Doors?

Waiting for Dell

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| The major desktop players keep flirting with the Linux community,
| but then they never go all the way. Take, for instance, Lenovo.
| Last summer, Lenovo agreed to preload Novell Inc.'s SLED 10 (SUSE
| Linux Enterprise Desktop) on its ThinkPad T60p mobile workstation.
| 
| Then, Lenovo started retreating, and hemming that they really didn't
| mean that they would offer it pre-installed. No, no, it's just that
| you could install SLED on the T60p if you really wanted to. Today,
| if you look at the T60p listing, you'll find your only operating
| system choices are Microsoft's Windows Vista Business and XP
| Professional.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8312248169.html

The mafia-like contracts and explicit threats must be playing a role.


Related:

FAA May Ditch Microsoft's Windows Vista And Office For Google And Linux Combo 

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| Bowen said he's in talks with the aviation safety agency's main
| hardware supplier, Dell Computer, to determine if it could
|                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| deliver Linux-based computers capable of accessing Google
| Apps through a non-Microsoft browser once the FAA's XP-based
| computers pass their shelf life.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197800480


,----[ Quote ]
| From: Joachim Kempin
| Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 1996 9:43 AM
| To: Bill Gates; Pete Higgings (Xenix); Nathan Myhrvold; Brad Silberberg 
| (Xenix); John Ludwig; Russel Siegeirman (Xenix); Steve Ballmer; 
| paulma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Subject: RE: AOL
| 
| are you suggesting we should put them in our box? May be all of them?
| Not a bad idea - but the OEMs might not be too hapy about it. They are 
| loosing their $$?
| P they are not in compliance. Compaq 
| truely pisses me off.
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http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_2455.pdf


Microsoft Shuts Down Linux 10 Years Ago Says Iowa Attorne

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| Going back now to as early as 1998, Microsoft starts to realize that
| Linux might pose a possible threat, and Vinod Valloppillil, who is
| a program manager at Microsoft, is asked by Mr. Allchin, Jim Allchin,
| to analyze potential strategies for combatting open-source software,
| and specifically Linux.
| His memos are leaked to the press in April -- I beg your pardon --
| in October of 1998 and become known as the Halloween documents.
| And the evidence will be that Microsoft uses its influence in the
| OEM channel, the computer manufacture channel, to make sure that
| end users have a difficult time buying PCs with Linux preinstalled.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/News/RoundUp/Microsoft_Shuts_Down_Linux_10_Years_Ago_Says_Iowa_Attorney


Microsoft's Dirty OEM-Secret

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| They are, in short the secret to Microsoft's success. And the word
| secret is to be taken quite literally: No OEM may talk about the
| contents of his contract, or he will lose his license, and (assumption)
| likely be sued for breach of contract as well.
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http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/10/23/13219/110


Jury Hears Microsoft Competition Suit

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| A judge on Friday told jurors they must accept as fact that a
| federal court found in 1999 that Microsoft holds a monopoly over
| computer operating systems and that it restricted computer
| manufacturers' ability to use competing systems.
|
| [...]
|
| She said she'll show that the company used its monopoly power
| to exclude competition and control prices and that it conspired with
| other companies to restrain trade, maintaining what she called a
| chokehold on software competitors and computer manufacturers.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/061201/microsoft_trial.html?.v=1


Did Microsoft want to 'whack' Dell over its Linux dealings?
http://news.com.com/Did+Microsoft+want+to+whack+Dell+over+its+Linux+dealings/2100-1014_3-6153904.html


Dell's secret Linux fling
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/09/dell_linux_china/


Microsoft 'killed Dell Linux' - States
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/19/microsoft_killed_dell_linux_states/

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