Chuck, I would disagree on the "part dujour" "good" OEMs, though of course I believe you mean this in sarcasm; even to an extent, large OEMs such as Dell, Alienware, HP, etc. will make specific changes for the end user in means of video, audio, drive types (SCSI, SATA, IDE) etc. which interferes with a "easy solution" restore.. while they do have line-level units that are all basically the same, very few OEMs have no option for a "part dujour" system ;)
In fact, the basic reason why most smaller OEMs stay alive is because that's all they do :) CW -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of warpmedia Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 10:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Here's a weird ruling from MS OPK & custom install disks are only a problem when you build part dujour systems which is NOT what "good" OEM's do. Even so it does not take much to make a custom restore disk & there is a BS (as in bull) M$ cert for doing so on the OEM site (which I can't take as I am not affiliated with a acttive OEM). [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Fisk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "The Hardware List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 10:12 AM > Subject: RE: [H] Here's a weird ruling from MS > > >> >> Very true, however microsoft is changing the OEM rules to make it so >> OEM's can't give out non-restore type disks, to lessen the possiblity >> that the disks will be used to install illegal copies of the >> software. It's not > > > I will go out of business when Microsoft quits furnishing OEM CD's and > requires me to personalize the restore process to my computer. In > another post I mentioned how for over 10 years power users have been > formatting and doing a clean install on each new name brand computer > they buy. It runs better! So now Microsoft is going to take that > privilege??? > > Chuck >
