Re: OFT say you have our attention on M$

From: Gordon <gordon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:36:50 +0000

Chris Croughton wrote:

> Strange then that I can buy 'bare' computers, just not at PC World and
> the like, for instance from novatech.com (an option on every laptop I
> checked there -- indeed, it's the top option -- is "I do not need an
> Operating System pre-installed"). The case for MS 'forcing' the market
> to buy Windows breaks down because it simply isn't true.

Not /now/ it isn't, but for many years prior to the DoJ case, MS was
saying to OEMs that if they sold a machine that had an OS on it that
wasn't Windows, then the cost of *all* the Windows licences to that OEM
would dramatically increase. Commercial blackmail to sell only machines
with Windows installed.
.

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