Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ birre ] on Monday 26 March 2007 12:16 \__
>
>> On 2007-03-21 00:14, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> 10 Reasons Why Microsoft's Vista Has Missed It's Mark
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Yes, Microsoft's Windows Vista will eventually run on most
>>> | corporate desktops. But early sales in the consumer market have
>>> | been softer than some analysts expected. For those of us who
>>> | covered Windows 95's launch more than a decade ago, Windows
>>> | Vista has been a yawn. These 10 questions--and their answers--reveal
>>> | why Vista isn't the hit some pundits expected.
>>> `----
>>
>> Well , unfortunately they sold one to me :-(
>>
>> I ordered a new PC that start with a 3 years leasing, so I must pay for
>> vista, no chance to get the machine without it.
>> I don't own it, so no refund, and after 3 years I own it, but then it's
>> to late to claim refund.
>>
>> Of course I will never boot the damn beast, just pay for it, then wipe it
>> from the disk.
>>
>> This sux ...
>>
>> /birre
>
> Dell Germany has given a Vista refund. I don't know who delivered this
> machine to you (in Sweden?), but you could claim a public victory if you
> correspond and argue with the seller. Others could then follow suit. You
> don't even need to mention Linux. Just reject the Vista EULA and tell them
> that there's precedence (in the UK).
>
He probably doesn't have a choice with a lease machine. The lease is the
machine and it's pre-installed OS. I used to lease and one of the rules was
that if it ever went in to be repaired it had to have the orriginal OS on
it. I did dual boot then so it wasn't a problem except that it wasted a
drive, though I have to say I was still doing MS Developement as well as
UNIX/Linux then so I did have to go into MS OS if I worked at home, so it
wasn't entirely wasted.
When I came to hand it in to swap for the next machine, you changed PC each
year which is why I did it, it had to have the orriginal OS. That was quite
a good scheme really, because it was when they really were major changes on
a yearly basis and it kept me right up to date. I only came unstuck when I
reallised a machine I had handed in a couple months earlier had the only
source copy of a project that I had done. Oh well, everything has its down
side.
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