Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Roy Schestowitz ] on Friday 16 March 2007 15:16 \__
>
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>> | Top five PC manufacturers fail naked PC test
>> | IT professionals are being forced to adopt Microsoft's operating systems
>> | -- even if they tell their PC supplier they want a system free of
>> | Microsoft software, ZDNet UK's research has revealed.
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | The reasons -- or excuses -- were varied.
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>> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39286228,00.htm
>
> More interesting bits:
>
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>| This is F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S! Take a few bites:
>|
>| * "These items [the notebook] will need to be returned to your local
>| Acer Repair Centre in order to allow us to remove the Windows
>| Operating System and refund you for it. Acer will refund you ina
>| ccordance with the value of the operating system shipped: XP Home =
>| £30 and XP Professional = £60. Shipment of the product to our repair
>| centre and back to you after the removal of Windows will be at your
>| own expense. As this is not a manufacture defect and not covered by
>| the warranty, you would have to organise your own courier when the
>| machine is ready to be sent back to you."
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| Now you know you're not free. Corporations rule the world (Microsoft
>| first).
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>
> http://beranger.org/index.php?article=2610&from=rss
>
Wow - why on earth does it need to be returned to them? Presumably this
is to ensure that the deal is barely worth it?
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