Mike Leone on Sat, 11 Jan 2003 23:58:07 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] OS Refund Day 

Paul (paul@dpagin.net) had this to say on 01/10/03 at 16:39: 
> Another thing that almost bothers me is that M$ requires (It's amazing 
> how they can require something.) new PCs to be sold with the /latest/ 
> release of Windows, whether the end user wants it or not.  If I paid the 
> M$ tax when I bought my last PC, why can't I use the OS that came with 
> that PC to run the new PC?

No, they don't. They require a shipping version, usually. I just bought a
Dell laptop at work, with Win2000 pre-installed. The latest version of
Windows is XP, not 2000.


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