__/ [ 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:
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| * "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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