"The Ghost In The Machine" <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> http://www.news.com/beyond-binary/8301-13860_3-9814213-56.html
>
> Under a new program announced Friday, large companies
> that sell refurbished PCs can get a brand spanking new
> copy of Windows to put on the machines--provided they
> pay Microsoft for the privilege.
>
> The initiative, which provides refurbishers with a
> special version of Windows XP, could help save more
> machines from heading to the landfill. In many cases,
> though, it means Microsoft will be getting paid twice
> for putting Windows on the same PC.
>
I have been using Windows since 1999 and Linux since 2000.
About a year ago I became a Microsoft Authorized refurbisher as I do
volunteer work for an NPO...
and wanted to put a lot of old machines back into use.
To re-license a machine with a legal version of Win2k is only $5 so I think
that's pretty fair.
I try to steer as many people as I can into Linux...but for the most part
there is a preference for Windows...
so I don't fight it.
BTW: I did give XP-FLP a try (it's the legacy machine version of XP)
and found that it does in-fact work well on a lower end machine.
Recently I did an installation of PCLinuxOS on one of my main machines and
was pleased at how great it works.
Linux has certainly come a long way since my first trials with RH5.2 !!!!
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